Joaquin Pangelinan Zablan, a Chamorro from Guam, left his island home for another, Hawaii.
Usually young Chamorro men left Guam in those days aboard the whaling ships, with hardly a peso to their name.
It seems life was eventually good to Joaquin because by 1880 he was able to buy a cattle ranch on the Big Island. Cattle rustling may have been a problem, as he thought it necessary to take out an ad in a Hawaii newspaper to warn people and their animals to stay off his property.
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