The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666: 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.
History
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666: 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
14-28. [These paragraphs contain data for the map that Letona would
have made--the location, latitude, size, and names of islands,
with distances and direction by compass. We note a few points of
interest which contain new information. In Mindoro is "El Baradero,
a celebrated bay and a very safe harbor." With the island of Burias
"ends the archbishopric of Manila; the next lands [i.e., Banton]
belong to the bishopric of Zebu." In Catanduanes reside a beneficed
curate and a corregidor. "The interior of Mindanao is still unsubdued;
its natives are heathen in the eastern part, and Mahometan pirates
in the west. They have been reduced to his Majesty's obedience and
to the Church, and among them are four garrisons of Spaniards--one
in the east, at Tandag; two in the north, at Bacilan and Malanao;
and another in the west, at Samboanga. In this island some cinnamon
is collected." "Sanguil, or Calonga, is a small island under a petty
king--who is a Catholic Christian--named Don Juan Buntuan. At his
request, I sent thither in the year 1651 with my credentials and
instructions father Fray Joseph de Truxillo, a deserving son of our
father St. Francis in this convent of La Puebla; ... who, with his
excellent example, preaching, and instruction--aided by his companion
father Fray Mateo Rodriguez, a man of his own spirit--established
and renewed the faith, built a church, and converted and baptized
many infidels, both children and adults." "Macazar is an island
yet to be conquered; its people are Mahometans and heathen, and
are very numerous. It is 180 leguas in circuit; in its eastern part
it has a powerful Mahometan king, who has at his capital factories
from Europa and Assia; and he has the utmost devotion and reverence
for the king our sovereign." The four islands of Bolinao form the
boundary of the archbishopric of Manila; from these extends the
bishopric of Cagayan. The following islands are depopulated (some
of them being mentioned in earlier accounts as having inhabitants):
Ticao, San Bernardino, Maesse de Campo, Cimara, Panaon, and Capones
(fifteen leguas from Maribeles); islets near Luban, Panay, Bantayan,
Mindoro, and Cuyo; and islets between Leyte and Cebú.]
Climate, population, and products
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