The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 39 of 55, 1683-1690: 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 39 of 55, 1683-1690: 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
They depart from the River of Mindanao. Of the time lost or
gain'd in sailing round the World: With a Caution to Seamen,
about the allowance they are to take for difference of the
Suns declination. The South Coast of Mindanao. Chambongo Town
an Harbour with its Neighbouring Keys. Green Turtle. Ruins of
a Spanish Fort. The Westermost point of Mindanao. Two Proes
of the Sologues laden from Manila. An Isle to the West of
Sebo. Walking Canes. Isle of Batts, very large; and numerous
Turtles and Manatee. A dangerous Shoal. They sail by Panay
belonging to the Spaniards, and others of the Philippine
Islands. Isle of Mindora. Two Barks taken. A further account
of the Isle Luconia, and the City and Harbour of Manila. They
go off Pulo Condore to lye there. The Shoals of Pracel,
&c. Pulo Condore. The Tar-tree. The Mango. Grape-tree. The
Wild or Bastard Nutmeg. Their Animals. Of the Migration of
the Turtle from place to place. Of the Commodious Situation of
Pulo Condore; its Water and its Cochinchinese Inhabitants. Of
the Malayan Tongue. The Custom of prostituting their Women in
these Countries, and in Guinea. The Idolatry here, at Tunquin,
and among the Chinese Seamen, and of a Procession at Fort
St. George. They refit their Ship. Two of them dye of Poyson
they took at Mindanao. They take in Water, and a Pilot for the
Bay of Siam. Puly Uby; and Point of Cambodia. Two Cambodian
Vessels. Isles in the Bay of Siam. The tight Vessels and
Seamen of the Kingdom of Champa. Storms. A Chinese Jonk from
Palimbam in Sumatra. They come again to Pulo Condore. A bloody
Fray with a Malayan Vessel. The Surgeon's and the Author's
desires of leaving their Crew.
The 14th Day of January, 1687, at 3 of the Clock in the Afternoon
we sailed from the River of Mindanao, designing to cruise before
Manila. [19]
[During their stay at Mindanao the English first notice the change of
time due to their having journeyed westward. There and in other places
they find the people reckoning a full day ahead of themselves, due to
the fact that the Portuguese had journeyed thither to the eastward. The
computation at the Ladrones is the same as their own. "But how the
reckoning was at Manila, and the rest of the Spanish Colonies in
the Philippine Islands, I know not; whether they keep it as they
brought it, or corrected it by the Accounts of the Natives, and of the
Portuguese, Dutch and English, coming the contrary way from Europe."]
We had the Wind at N.N.E. fair clear Weather, and a brisk Gale. We
coasted to the Westward, on the South-side of the Island of Mindanao,
keeping within 4 or 5 Leagues of the Shore. The Land from hence tends
away W. by S. It is of a good height by the Sea, and very woody,
and in the Country we saw high Hills.
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