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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 35, 1640-1649: 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 35, 1640-1649: 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

Early Franciscan missions. [Unsigned; written in 1649, and
        published in 1895.]                                          278

    Bibliographical Data                                             323






ILLUSTRATIONS

    Title-page of Historia de la provincia del Santo Rosario
    de Filipinas, tomo segundo, by Baltasar de Santa Cruz,
    O. P. (Zaragoça, 1693); photographic facsimile from copy in
    library of Harvard University                                     23

    Native women pounding rice in the province of Cagayán; from
    photograph taken by Otto Fischer, 1888; procured in Madrid        49
    Chart of part of the Philippines; photographic facsimile of
    a map taken from a Dutch MS. of 1662; from Dalrymple's Charts
    [London], 1778, ii, p. 74; from copy in the Library of
    Congress                                                    132, 133

    Rough sketch of Manila and its environs, ca. 1641; photographic
    facsimile from original MS. map in Archivo general de Indias,
    Sevilla                                                          171






PREFACE


In the present volume, which covers the period 1629-49, the principal
topics are the missions of the religious orders and the hostilities
between the Spaniards and the Dutch in the eastern seas. The final
chapters in this conflict are the capture of Formosa by the Dutch, and
the successive defeats of their armed squadrons in contests with the
Spanish ships sent against them from Manila. In the loss of Formosa
the Dominicans are deprived of their flourishing missions there;
but this is compensated by the suppression of Collado's faction in
their order. The Recollect missions in Mindanao sustain some losses;
but one of the laborers therein, "Father Captain," sheds glory on
them by his bravery, skill, and devotion. The Franciscan missions
are in satisfactory condition; to their strictly religious work
they add the care of the hospitals and the lepers. The prosperity
of the islands has been greatly injured by the losses of galleons,
insufficient crops, the oppressive taxes laid on the Chinese traders,
and the great earthquake of 1645.

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