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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

In 1640 the Jesuit Bobadilla writes a description of the Philippines
and their people. The former is but a brief outline; most of the
document is devoted to the Indian natives, and the natural products of
the islands. The father writes of the custom of slavery among them;
their religious beliefs, customs, and superstitions; the practices
of their priests; their physical appearance, and dress; their customs
of tattooing, filing the teeth, and bathing; their language, writing,
and music. He describes their marriages, houses, occupations, boats,
and weapons; and their medical practice and mortuary customs. Then he
considers the climate of the islands, the culture and uses of rice,
and the natural products--animals, minerals, and fruits, especially
the palm and bamboo. He describes the buyo, so commonly used there;
also various peculiar animals. Bobadilla then mentions the manner in
which the Spanish colony is governed; their garrisons in the islands;
and the bishoprics therein. He describes briefly the city of Manila,
the trade of Filipinas, the relations of the Spaniards with the
Chinese and other peoples, and the voyage between Manila and Acapulco.


    The Editors
        July, 1905.







DOCUMENTS OF 1638


    Events in the Filipinas, 1637-38. [Unsigned; probably written by
    Juan Lopez, S.J., in July, 1638.]
    Letter to Felipe IV. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera; August 21.
    Letter to Felipe IV, from the treasurer at Manila. Baltasar Ruiz
    de Escalona; August 31.
    Relation of the Filipinas Islands. Hieronimo de Bañuelos y
    Carrillo; 1638.
    Glorious victories against the Moros of Mindanao. Diego de
    Bobadilla, S.J., and others; 1638.
    Royal orders and decrees, 1638. Felipe IV; March 15, and
    September-December.
    Fortunate successes in Filipinas and Terrenate, 1636-37.
    [Unsigned; published in 1639.]
    Value of Corcuera's seizures in Jolo. [Unsigned and undated;
    probably 1638.]



Sources: The first and seventh of these documents are obtained from
MSS. in the Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid; the second and third,
and two of the decrees in the sixth, from MSS. in the Archivo general
de Indias, Sevilla; the rest of the sixth, from the Archivo Historico
Nacional, Madrid; the fourth, from Thevenot's Voyages curieux, t. i,
part ii--from a copy belonging to the library of Harvard University;
the fifth, from a book in the Museo-Biblioteca de Ultramar, Madrid;
the eighth, from Pastells' edition of Colin's Labor evangélica, iii,
pp. 528-533.

Translations: These are made by James A. Robertson--except the second
and part of the sixth, by Emma Helen Blair; and the fifth, by Arthur
B. Myrick.







EVENTS IN THE FILIPINAS, 1637-38

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