matelote การใช้

• Spanish explorers visited the archipelago in 1542 ( Matelotes Islands ), 1543, and 1545.
• At Yap, the Villalobos'expedition received the same surprising greeting as previously in Fais Island from the local people approaching the ships in canoes : " Buenos d韆s Matelotes ! " ( " Good day sailors ! " ) in perfect sixteenth-century Spanish evidencing previous presence of the Spaniards in the area.