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
[Tanchuy is taken from the Spaniards by the Dutch, as is related by
Father Angeles; Ferrando adds:] Forty pieces of heavy artillery fell
into their hands, with large quantities of gunpowder and military
supplies, twenty-five thousand duros from the treasury, and a great
deal of merchandise owned by private persons, which might amount to
nearly a million in value. This was the first disgraceful victory which
the Dutch could obtain over the Spanish arms in that great Oceania,
[and that] because the island was neglected and abandoned by an unlucky
governor--a victory that was a thousand times more unfortunate, since
it inflated their arrogance to the extreme of believing themselves
powerful enough to dispute with us at last the envied possession of
the Filipinas Islands.
It was the province of the most holy Rosary which felt the deepest pain
at this lamentable result; for besides [being compelled to] abandon
their beloved flocks, they lost various churches and convents, with
their precious images and sacred ornaments; the provisions destined
for the missionaries at Fo-gan; three priests and two lay brethren,
who were sent prisoners to Jacatra (now Nueva Batavia); and, finally,
their hopes of seeing in the bosom of religion and of the Church all
the inhabitants of that island, whose conversion to Christianity had
already made considerable progress. [These converts, however, long
retain the faith that they had received from the missionaries, and shun
both heathen observances and the heresies of their Dutch conquerors.]
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