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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55, 1638–40: 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 29 of 55, 1638–40: 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

Ecclesiastical and Augustinian affairs, 1630-40. Casimiro
        Diaz; Manila [1718?]. [From his Conquistas.]                 259

        Relation of the Filipinas Islands. [Diego de Bobadilla,
        S.J.; 1640.]                                                 277

    Bibliographical Data.                                            313

ILLUSTRATIONS

    View of city of Manila; photographic facsimile of engraving in
    Mallet's Description de l'univers (Paris, 1683), ii, p. 127;
    from copy in the Library of Congress.                             67

    View of one of Ladrones Islands; photographic facsimile of
    engraving in Hulsius's Eigentliche und wahrhaftige Beschreibung
    (Franckfurt am Mayne, M.DC.XX), p. 66; from copy in library of
    Harvard University.                                              169

    Portus Acapulco (view of harbor of Acapulco, Mexico);
    photographic facsimile of engraving in Arnoldus Montanus's
    Nieuwe en onbekende Weereld (Amsterdam, 1671), p. 246; from
    copy in library of Harvard University.                           188

    Archipelagus orientalis, sive Asiaticus (Eastern or Asiatic
    archipelago); photographic facsimile of map by Joannis Blaeu
    (Amsterdam, 1659); from original map in Bibliothèque Nationale,
    Paris.                                                           279

PREFACE

The present volume (1638-40) is largely occupied with the annals
of those years, and the hostilities of the Moro pirates. This
period is a troublous one; "wars and rumors of wars," conspiracies
(among both Chinese and natives), storms, shipwrecks, and disease,
disquiet the colony. The Chinese revolt of 1639 is described at
length. Corcuera administers the government with a high hand, and
arouses many enmities. Two interesting descriptions of the islands
are furnished, by a Spanish officer and by a Jesuit.

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