[17] These data are largely taken from the account of the customs of the Tagálog prepared by Friar Juan de Plasencia, in 1589, at the request of Dr. Santiago de Vera, the governor and president of the Audiencia. Although there are references to it by the early historians of the Philippines, this little code did not see the light until a few years ago, when a manuscript copy was discovered in the convent of the Franciscans at Manila, by Dr. Pardo de Tavera, and was by him published. It treats of slave-holding, penalties for crime, inheritances, adoption, dowry, and marriage. (Las Costumbres de los Tagálog en Filipinas, segun el Padre Plasencia, by T. H. Pardo de Tavera. Madrid, 1892.) [18] See on this matter Diccionario Mitologico de Filipinas, by Blumentritt; Retana, Archivo del Bibliófilo Filipino, vol. II. [19] This word is of Sanskrit origin and is common throughout Malaysia. [20] Relacion de las Cosas de las Filipinas hecha por Sr. Domingo de Salazar, Primer obispo de dichas islas, 1583; in Retana, Archivo, vol. III. [21] The foundation and character of this great colonial administration have been admirably described by the Honorable Bernard Moses, United States Philippine Commissioner and the first Secretary of Public Instruction, in his work, The Establishment of Spanish Rule in America. [22] Moses: Establishment of Spanish Rule in America, p. 12. [23] Demarcación del Maluco, hecha por el maestro Medina, in Documentos inéditos, vol. V., p. 552. [24] This and subsequent voyages are given in the Documentos inéditos, vol. V., and a graphic account is in Argensola's Conquista de las Islas Molucas. They are also well narrated in English by Burney, Discoveries in the South Sea, vol. I., chapters V., XII., and XIV. [25] Fray Gaspar de San Agustin: Conquista de las Islas Filipinas, lib. I., c. 13. [26] One of the best paintings of the Filipino artist Juan Luna, which hangs in the Ayuntamiento in Manila, represents Legaspi in the act of the "Pacto de Sangre" with this Filipino chieftain. [27] There is an old account of this interesting expedition by one who participated. (Relacion de la Conquista de la Isla de Luzon, Manila, 1572; Retana, Archivo del Bibliofilo Filipino, vol. IV.) [28] Morga: Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, 2d ed., p. 10. [29] Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas. P. 316. [30] Conquista de la Isla de Luzon, p. 24. [31] See the letter of Bishop Salazar to the king, explaining his motives, in coming to the Philippines. Retana, Biblioteca Filipina, vol, I.; Relacion, 1583, p. 4. [32] Zuñiga: Historia de Filipinas, pp. 195, 196. [33] Both Van Noort and Morga have left us accounts of this sea-fight, the former in his journal, Description of the Failsome Voyage Made Round the World, and the latter in his famous, Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas. [34] Montero y Vidal: Historia de Filipinas, vol. I., p. 199. [35] Relacion de la Conquista de Luzon, 1572, p. 15.