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strongest chief of Guam. Unbeknownst to
Mataquana, he was speaking to Gadao. Gadao said that he would introduce Mataquana to Gadao after he rested and ate. When Gadao broke open coconuts with his small finger and wrung them with his hands, Mataquana was impressed at his strength and feared that Gadao's would be greater. Mataquana asked Gadao for the way back home. Each man rowed back to their villages in canoes.
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Gadao succeeded and ordered his sons to construct a fence around the island using boulders before daybreak in order to defend the island from outside threats. However, Gadao's sons mistook a twinkling star for the rising sun and rushed home, leaving a boulder in the reef but the fence unfinished. The
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The Legend of the Battle
Between Chiefs tells of an encounter between Gadao and Chief Mataquana. Mataquana was considered one of the strongest chiefs in Guam. When he heard of Gadao's strength, he went to Inarajan and asked someone where he could find Gadao: Mataquana wanted to prove that he was the
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In the Legend of the Three Feats of
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foreigners then came and conquered the island. These foreigners where
Spanish invaders, whom Gadao challenged to combat wielding a sword made from the spine of a stingray. But due to the invaders advanced weaponry, Gadao was unable to ward off then off and Guahan was conquered.
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second task was breaking a coconut tree into ten pieces with his bare hands, and lastly, Gadao had to level Guahan's highest peak: Mount Lamlam.
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