The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55: 1493-1529; Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55: 1493-1529; Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
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[81] _State of the Philippine Islands_, pp. 216-217. These
responsibilities and the isolation from Europeans together with the
climate frequently brought on insanity. Le Gentil, ii, p. 129. Mallat,
i, p. 388.
[82] _Ibid_., p. 214.
[83] In 1637 the military force maintained in the islands consisted of
one thousand seven hundred and two Spaniards and one hundred and forty
Indians. _Memorial de D. Juan Grau y Monfalcon, Procurador General
de las Islas Filipinas, Docs. Inéditos del Archivo de Indias_, vi,
p. 425. In 1787 the garrison at Manila consisted of one regiment of
Mexicans comprising one thousand three hundred men, two artillery
companies of eighty men each, three cavalry companies of fifty men
each. La Pérouse, ii, p. 368.
[84] _Apuntes Interesantes sobre Las Islas Filipinas, etc., escritos
por un Español de larga esperiencia en el pais y amante del progresso_,
Madrid, 1869, p. 13. This very interesting and valuable work was
written in the main by Vicente Barrantes, who was a member of the
Governor's council and his secretary. On the authorship see Retana's
_Archivo ii, Biblioteca Gen_., p. 25, which corrects his conjecture
published in his Zúñiga, ii, p. 135.
[85] _Apuntes Interesantes_, pp. 42-43.
[86] Zúñiga, _Estadismo_, i, p. 246; Le Gentil, ii, p. 172.
[87] Le Gentil, ii, p. 172.
[88] Morga, p. 336.
[89] Morga, _ibid_.
[90] _Memorial dado al Rey por D. Juan Grau y Monfalcon, Procurado
General de las Islas Filipinas. Docs. Inéditos del Archivo de Indias_,
vi, p. 444.
[91] _Recopilacion_, lib. ix, tit. xxxv, ley vi and ley xv. As will
be seen there was usually only one ship.
[92] _Ibid_., ley xxxiv.
[93] _Ibid_., ley lxviii.
[94] _Ibid_., ley lxxviii.
[95] _Ibid.,_ ley xlv.
[96] Morga, p. 344. Zúñiga, i, pp. 271-274. "El barco de Acapulco
ha sido la causa de que los espanoles hayan abandonado las riquezas
naturales e industriales de las Islas." _Ibid_., p. 443.
[97] Le Gentil, ii, pp. 203-230; Zúñiga, i, p. 266 ff.
[98] Le Gentil, ii, p. 205; Careri, _Voyage Round the World_,
Churchill's _Voyages_, iv, p. 477.
[99] Zúñiga, i, p. 267.
[100] Le Gentil, ii, p. 205.
[101] Le Gentil, ii, p. 207.
[102] Zúñiga, i, p. 268.
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