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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 02 of 55: 1521-1569; 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 02 of 55: 1521-1569; 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

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

Volume II, 1521-1569

Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson
with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord
Bourne.

Contents of Volume II

    Preface
    Expedition of García de Loaisa--1525-26

            [Résumé of contemporaneous documents--1522-37]

    Voyage of Alvaro de Saavedra--1527-28.

            [Résumé of contemporaneous documents--1527-28]

    Expedition of Ruy Lopez de Villalobos

            [Résumé of contemporaneous documents--[1541-48]

    Expedition of Miguel Lopez de Legazpi--1564-68.

            [Résumé of contemporaneous documents--1559-68]

            Warrant of the Augustinian authorities
            in Mexico establishing a branch of their
            brotherhood in the Philippines--1564

            Act of taking possession of Cibabao, Fernando
            Riquel; Cibabao, February 15, 1565

            Proclamation ordering the declaration of
            the gold taken from the burial-places of the
            Indians. M.L. de Legazpi; Çubu, May 16, 1565

            Letters to Felipe II of Spain. M.L. de
            Legazpi and others; Cubu, May 27 and 29,
            and June 1, 1565

            Letter from the royal officials of the
            Filipinas to the royal Audiencia at Mexico,
            accompanied by a memorandum of the necessary
            things to be sent to the colony. Guido de
            Labecares and others; Cubu, May 28, 1565

            Relation of the voyage to the
            Philippines. M. L. de Legazpi; Cubu, [1565]

            [1]Copia de vna carta venida de Seuilla a
            Miguel Saluador de Valencia. (Barcelona,
            Pau Cortey, 1566)

            Letters to Felipe II of Spain. M.L. de Legazpi;
            Cubu, July 12, 15, and 23, 1567 and June
            26, 1568

            Negotiations between Legazpi and Pereira
            regarding the Spanish settlement at
            Cebú. Fernando Riquel; 1568-69

    Bibliographical Data

Illustrations

    Portrait of Miguel Lopez de Legazpi; photographic
    reproduction from painting in Museo-Biblioteca de Ultramar,
    Madrid. _Frontispiece_

    Portrait of Fray Andrés de Urdaneta; photographic reproduction
    from painting by Madrazo, in possession of the Colegio de
    Filipinas (Augustinian), Valladolid.

    Signatures of Legazpi and other officials in the Philippines;
    photographic facsimile from original MS. of their letter of
    June 1, 1565, in the Archivo general de Indias, Seville.

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