[7] At this point the manuscript and printed original both contain a partial reduplication, as follows: _los vexinos y cargadores de Filipinas, que sin reconocer--es digo por solo no verse sujetos á denunciationes._ It may possibly be regarded as a parenthetical expression added for the sake of force, and is translated: "the citizens and exporters of Filipinas, who without recognizing--it is, I say, for the sole purpose of not becoming liable to denunciations." This clause is dropped in the _Extracto historial_ reprint. [8] See Vol. xvi of this series, pp. 225-227. [9] The manuscript at this point contains a duplicate or confusion of words, as follows: _Reyes tienen vnos Estados, porque los han menester, y otros digo el embiarles ministros della aunque los._ This proves the manuscript only a clerical copy, as does also the fact that it is copied in the same hand as other manuscripts of this same collection; and it shows the carelessness with which this copy was made. [10] The progress made by the Mahometans in the eastern part of Asia was very slow. The inhabitants of Malacca were converted in 1276, those of the Moluccas in 1465, and those of Java in 1478, and those of the Celebes one year before Vasco da Gama rounded the cape of Good Hope. Nevertheless, after 1521, many of the inhabitants of these islands began to be converted to Catholicism.--See _Doc. inéd. Amér. y Oceanía_, vi, p. 375, note. [11] _Empeño_: This transfer, as may be seen from the treaty of Zaragoza (vol. 1, pp. 221-239), was part of the sale by Spain to Portugal of the spice-trade, right of navigation, and islands then in dispute between the two crowns; but various stipulations were made regarding it, so that the Maluco Islands were, in a sense, held as a pledge for the observance thereof. [12] This word is lacking in the manuscript. [13] At this point occurs a doublet of nine words in the manuscript--simply an error of the transcriber. [14] See this decree in vol. III, pp. 250, 251. [15] See this decree, with illustrations, in vol. IX, pp. 211-215. [16] See Vol. iv, p. 108. [17] This is the date in the original printed edition, but both the manuscript and the reprint in the _Extracto historial_ give 1626. [18] At this point there is another _lapsus calami_ by the transcriber of the manuscript, resulting in another reduplication. [19] Both the manuscript and the _Extracto historial_ reprint say May 16. [20] See Vol. XX, p. 257. [21] This word is omitted in the manuscript. [22] Singapore signifies, in Malay, "place of lions"--although it would be more apropos to call it "the place of tigers," which are so plentiful there (_Doc. inéd. Amér. y Oceania_, vi, p. 383, note). [23] This sentence is very blindly worded, but perhaps indicates, by anticipation, the point made in section 40, _post_--where India and the Philippines are mentioned as the "extremes" of the Spanish empire in the Orient. Or it may refer to the alternative presented near the end of section 2.