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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55: 1621-1624; 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 20 of 55: 1621-1624; 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

At the close of the year 1623, an expedition is sent to explore and
pacify the province of the Igorrotes (in northern Luzon), already
famous for its rich gold mines. The report of this enterprise,
furnished (June 5, 1624) by its leader, Alonso Martin Quirante,
narrates its progress from day to day, the plan of the campaign, the
encounters between the Spaniards and the Igorrotes, and the success of
the former in repulsing the attacks of the natives and obtaining ore
from the mines. Martin describes the country through which he passes;
the native tribes, their customs, and their methods of obtaining gold;
the mines, and the ore secured from them. He considers the general
idea of the richness of these mines incorrect and exaggerated; he
examines them, however, carefully, and obtains specimens of the ore
from each. Then follows a report of the various tests and assays made
thereon, from which the results are not very satisfactory; a table
showing the values of the metal obtained in each of the assays; and
the action of the Audiencia of Manila thereon--they deciding to abandon
further attempts to explore or work the Igorrote mines, and to send to
Nueva España for further test the ores brought by Martin to Manila;
moreover, the men now at the mines are to be sent to Nueva Segovia,
to subdue the revolted Indians there.


_The Editors_
September, 1904.






DOCUMENTS OF 1621



	News from the province of Filipinas. Alonso Roman; [July?].
	Death of Doña Catalina Zambrano. [Unsigned]; July.
	Letter to the king. Alonso Fajardo de Tença; July 21.
	Letter from the archbishop of Manila to the king. Miguel
	Garcia Serrano, O.S.A., July 30.
	Letter to the king. Geronimo de Silva; August 1.
	Affairs in the Franciscan province. Pedro de Sant Pablo,
	O.S.F., and others; 1620-21.
	Letter to the king. Alonso Fajardo de Tença; December 10.



_Sources_: The first of these documents is obtained from a MS. in
the Real Academia de Historia, Madrid; the second, from the Ventura
del Arco MSS. (Ayer Library), i, pp. 509-514; the remainder, from
MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla.

_Translations_: The first of these documents is translated by Arthur
B. Myrick, of Harvard University; the second, fourth, fifth, and
sixth, by James A. Robertson--except the Latin bull in the fourth,
translated by Rev. T.C. Middleton, O.S.A.; the third and seventh,
by Robert W. Haight.





News from the Province of Filipinas, This Year, 1621

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