Dumont d’Urville’s Astrolabe is boarded off Yap; one islander had been to Guam and spoke some Spanish.

What happened

On his first Pacific expedition, Dumont d’Urville’s Astrolabe stood off Yap for a day, and several Yapese “accustomed to European ways” came aboard. Two days earlier at Ulithi, islanders in a canoe had traded and seemed “communicative and even loquacious.”