Fr. Agustín de Arínez publishes the Diccionario hispano-kanaka, with over 3,500 Pohnpeian entries.

What happened

Fr. Agustín de Arínez, born José Gandaluce Urbina in Álava in 1858, was the most fluent Pohnpeian speaker among the Capuchins. His dictionary, printed at Tambobong in the Philippines, was the first book published by the Catholic mission on Pohnpei, and copies arrived on a mail ship in 1893.