The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55: 1629-30; 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 23 of 55: 1629-30; 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
Also situated in the province of Iloilo, with a present civilized
population of 6,700. See Bulletin No. 1, _ut supra._
[148] This is a very important town in Iloilo. In 1893 it had 15,151
inhabitants. It had a beautiful stone church, built very high, and
in the form of a Greek cross, crowned with a fine cupola.--_Coco_.
Its present civilized population is 14,464. See Bulletin No. 1,
_ut supra._
[149] Ibahay in the district of Aclan, of Capiz Province--_Coco_.
[150] This is Fray Alonso Baraona, a native of Quintanario, in the
province of Burgos. He took his vows in the convent of that city in
1596. He became prior of Santo Nino in 1607, and was missionary at
Dumangas in 1608, Batan in 1609, Jaro in 1610, Aclan in 1613, and
Passi in 1614. He was definitor and prior provincial in 1617, and
missionary at Bay in 1633. His death occurred in 1626. See Perez's
_Catalogo_, p. 77.
[151] In 1893 it had 7,623 inhabitants.--_Coco_.
The civilized population in 1903 was 8,503. It is in the province of
llocos Sur. See Bulletin No. 1, _ut supra._
[152] In 1893, a parish chart showed 12,180 inhabitants.--_Coco_.
Also in llocos Sur, and with a civilized population of 18,828. See
Bulletin No. 1, _ut supra._
[153] Dingras with 11,113 inhabitants in 1893.--_Coco_.
The present civilized population is 15,792. This village is situated
in the province of Ilocos Norte. Narvacan (the Nalbacan of the text),
in Ilocos Sur, has a present civilized population of 19,575. See
Bulletin No. 1, _ut supra_.
[154] Caruya or Caruyan, now Bigaa was in 1893 a parish, as was
also Quingua, in the province of Bulacan. They had populations in
1893 of 7,108 and 7,787 respectively, and good stone churches and
convents.--_Coco_.
These two villages have present civilized populations of 8,000 and
7,229, respectively. See Bulletin No. 1, _ut supra._
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