The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 37, 1669-1676: 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 37, 1669-1676: 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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[144] So in the printed text; but there is apparently a hiatus,
a name being omitted--that of the visitor's companion. Cf. the
account here given by Diaz of the shipwreck suffered by Godínez,
in which his secretary was drowned. Huerta does not mention Antonio
Godínez. According to Reseña biográfica, the Dominican Calderon first
came to the islands in 1658.
[145] Spanish pintados; it may mean "tattooed."
[146] Perhaps the celebrated Prospero Fagnani, a canonist of the
seventeenth century who was regarded at Rome as an oracle on all
legal questions. He was secretary to several popes for about fifteen
years. Blindness seized him at the age of forty-four, but he composed
his Commentaria super quinque libros Decretalium (Rome, 1661) after
that time. He died in 1678. See Rose's New General Biographical
Dictionary (London, 1848).
[147] Manuel Quintero went to Manila in 1669, where he was appointed
conventual of Guadalupe. See Pérez's Catálogo, p. 185.
[148] Numerous currents are set up, through the passage among the
islands, by the great equatorial current which crosses the Pacific
from east to west, dividing east of the Philippines. Surface drifts
are also set in motion by the southwest wind in summer and fall, which
make the currents in various directions among the islands at certain
times of the year. These small currents have much influence on the
climate, those in the San Bernardino Strait affecting the peninsula of
Sorsogón and the north coast of Samar. Tides in the Philippines are
exceedingly irregular, varying greatly in different places, owing to
the directions in which tidal waves move, and differing also greatly
at different times of the month. See Census of Philippine Islands
(Washington, 1905), pp. 56, 90, 91.
[149] Jerónimo Ramos had labored in the missions of Taguig (1650),
Malolos (1653), and Bauan in Batangas (1654-62). In 1662 he retired
to the Manila convent, where he died in 1668. See Pérez's Catálogo,
p. 109.
[150] The previously-cited document in Ventura del Arco MSS. ascribes
(pp. 502-512) Salcedo's unpopularity to his being unable to satisfy the
extravagant expectations of persons who demanded from him offices and
opportunities for gain; dislike of him by the priests and friars; the
resentment of traders with whom his proceedings interfered; jealousy
of his Flemish dependents; his severe enforcement of certain decrees;
the plots and schemes of Bonifaz and others; and his own arrogance,
and self-will.
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