Godeffroy & Son opens Yap’s first permanent trade station.

What happened

Andrew Cheyne and Alfred Tetens had visited Yap often in the 1860s to gather bêche-de-mer, but Godeffroy & Son, a Hamburg firm, set up the first permanent station. Hezel describes Yap then as an island of about 8,000 people with no single ruler, where each village had its own chief within an island-wide ranking system.