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.
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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
In the jurisdiction of the alcalde-mayor of Tondo, which is the place
nearest to the city of Manila besides the aforesaid villages (which all
belong to him, except the port of Cabitte), is the village of Tegui,
close to the lake. It is in charge of calced Augustinian religious.
In the interior are located the villages of Silan and Ymdan which
are in charge of fathers of the Society of Jesus.
Up-stream and next to the jurisdiction of Tondo begins the jurisdiction
of the lake of Bari [sic; sc. Bay] which lies east of Manila; this
jurisdiction lies along the shore of the said lake. The chief village
is called Barii (whence the name of the said lake) and it is in charge
of calced Augustinian religious.
The village of San Pablo, distant six leguas inland, is in charge of
the same calced Augustinian religious.
There is a hospital located on the bank of the said lake, which is
in charge of religious of St. Francis. These religious have charge
of most of the villages of that jurisdiction with the exception of
that of Binan and its subordinate villages.
Coasting along Manila Bay, one comes first to the island of Maribeles,
a small jurisdiction in charge of a Spaniard, who is corregidor and
serves also as sentinel. Its villages are in charge of discalced
Augustinian religious, with the exception of that of Maragondon and
its subordinate villages, which are in charge of religious of the
Society of Jesus.
Leaving the bay, and pursuing the same voyage made by the ships that
go to Nueva España, on the left and some fourteen leguas from Cavitte
is the jurisdiction of Balayan or Bombon, located on a small lake
which bears that name. It has an alcalde-mayor; most of its villages
are in charge of seculars, and the others, of calced religious of
St. Augustine.
Opposite the said jurisdiction and to the right, lie the islands of
Mindoro and Luban, which are in charge of secular priests. They have
an alcalde-mayor, to whom belongs also the island of Marinduque,
which is in charge of fathers of the Society of Jesus.
Traveling along the other side of the land of Manila, [22] one
encounters the jurisdiction of Bulacan, which is but small, and is
administered by religious of the calced Augustinians--as also is the
jurisdiction of Panpanga, which is large and fertile, and contains
many large villages.
Fourteen or fifteen leguas past the island of Mindoro to the southwest,
are the islands called Calamianes, which number about seventeen. They
are small and most of them now subdued; and they lie between the
island of Mindoro and that called Paragua, which is the third of the
said Philipinas Islands in size. [23] A small portion of the latter
island is subject to the Spaniards; it is one hundred and fifty leguas
in circumference, and its greatest latitude is nineteen degrees.
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