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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 38, 1674-1683: 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 38, 1674-1683: 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

The English buccaneer William Dampier spent most of the years
1686-87 in the Philippine Islands; his own account of this sojourn
(published in 1697) is an interesting and valuable addition to
Philippine documentary material. Departing from Cape Corrientes in
Mexico (March 31, 1686), they sail across the Pacific in order to
plunder the vessels engaged in the Philippine commerce, and on May
21 reach Guam, whose people and products are minutely described. The
population of that island is greatly reduced, because most of the
natives had left it after an unsuccessful rebellion against their
Spanish conquerors. The English obtain a supply of provisions here,
by professing to be Spaniards. Thence they depart for Mindanao (June
2), where they remain until January 13, 1687. Dampier describes, with
much detail, the fauna, products, people, and customs of Mindanao. This
document will be concluded in VOL. XXXIX.


    The Editors
    April, 1906.







MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS, 1674-1683


    Manila and the Philippines about 1650 (concluded). Domingo
    Fernandez Navarrete, O.P.; 1676.
    Condition of the clergy of the Philippines. Pedro Diaz del Cosio,
    O.P., and others; 1674-75.
    Prerogatives of ex-provincials granted to Augustinian procurators
    from Filipinas. Innocent XI; December 17, 1677.
    Royal patronage extended to the university of Santo Tomás. Carlos
    II; May 17, 1680.
    Letter to Carlos II. Francisco Pizarro Orellana: February 24, 1683.
    Insurrections by Filipinos in the seventeenth century. [Accounts
    by various early writers covering the period 1621-83.]
    Dampier in the Philippines (to be concluded). William Dampier;
    1697.


Sources: The first document is concluded from VOL. XXXVII, q.v. The
second is obtained from the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library),
iii, pp. 1-5. The third is from Hernaez's Colección de bulas, i,
p. 592. The fourth is from Algunos documentos relat. á la Uuniv. de
Manila, pp. 31-33. The fifth is from a MS. in the Archivo general
de Indias, Sevilla. The sixth is from various early writers, full
references to each being given in the text. The seventh is from the
Voyages of Dampier, London ed. of 1703, i, pp. 279-402; from a copy
in the library of Harvard University.

Translations: The first, second, fourth, and seventh of these
documents are translated by James A. Robertson; the third, by
Rev. T. C. Middleton, O.S.A.; the fifth and sixth, by Emma Helen Blair.







MANILA AND THE PHILIPPINES ABOUT 1650

(Concluded)


CHAP. V

What I observed and accomplished in that time

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