The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55: 1591-1593; 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 Close of the Nineteenth Century
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55: 1591-1593; 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 Close of the Nineteenth Century
Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources
13. _Item_: A book shall be kept wherein to enter the income of the
hospital, whether from tributes and annual pensions, or from other
sources of income or profit possessed by the hospital. Likewise
there shall be a book for the entry of alms and legacies bequeathed
to the hospital by the dying, as well as those collected and sent
to it by charitable persons, in either money or fowls, or anything
else, so that the steward in whose care they shall be placed may have
them all credited in the said book, and so that there may be a full
account of everything. There shall also be another book in which to
enter the clothing, beds, ornaments, and other furniture acquired
by the hospital; and it shall be kept by the person in whose charge
they are. There shall be another book in which to enter the names of
the sick, with the day, month, and year of their entrance; and the
deaths and the departures, also with the date. Likewise there shall be
another book of the allowances, wages, and pay spent in the hospital,
both of its sick and of its officials, entering therein the tickets
of admission of the sick.
[_Endorsed_: "Rules of the Manila hospital."]
Expedition to Tuy
When we went upon this expedition to Tuy, the Indians surrendered of
their own free will, and no blood was shed, solely through the efforts
of two religious who accompanied Don Luys. Then they gave only their
tribute of recognition in beads and a trifle of adulterated gold. And
so that it might not appear that the tribute was to be collected
immediately, they were given one year's respite, within which the
Spaniards would return to collect it. They bound themselves to pay
it. In order not to break faith, we shall not return there until the
time limit has expired; and, even then, I shall see to it that when
we return they shall not be oppressed in any way, in order to compel
them to give the whole tribute. They shall give only what they are
willing to, because we have furnished them no instruction; nor have
we effected a settlement, as I expected--because of the few people
we have, on account of the death of many of them, and because I am
deliberating whether I should make a settlement in Tuy itself, as
it is the capital, or at place thirty or forty leagues from Cagayan,
up the river, opposite Tuy, and midway between Cagayan and Tuy. This
year we shall go thither, and and I hope, with God's help, to found
the settlement and attain the success that is desirable. As I had to
encounter the Zambales, who were attacking me, everything could not be
done. The land there is very fertile, and the climate more temperate
than this. The Indians are robust, intelligent, and energetic. All
the houses are large and quite well constructed. The villages contain
about five hundred or more inhabitants. Two crops of rice are gathered,
one being irrigated, and the other allowed to grow by itself. The
land contains deer, buffaloes, swine, goats, poultry, anise, ginger,
cotton, and many wild fruits.
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