 The original account of this story is included in the report that the Augustinian Fray Jerónimo de Santisteban, travelling with the Villalobos' expedition, wrote for the Viceroy of New Spain, while in Kochi during the voyage home.French naval captain Louis Tromelin visited the island during a journey through the Pacific 1828-29 

As with all of the Caroline Islands, Fais was sold by Spain to the Empire of Germany in 1899.The island came under the control of the Empire of Japan after World War I, and was subsequently administered under the South Seas Mandate.