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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55, 1690-1691: 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 40 of 55, 1690-1691: 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

   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,

                          Volume XL, 1690-1691

 Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson
  with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord
                                Bourne.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XL

    Preface                                                       9

    Document of 1691

        Events at Manila, 1690-91. [Unsigned; Manila, June,
        1691.]                                                   21

    Bibliographical Data                                         33

    Appendix: Ethnological description of the Filipinos Native
    races and their customs. Francisco Colin, S.J.; Madrid,
    1663. [From his Labor evangélica.]                           37
    The natives of the southern islands. Francisco Combés,
    S.J.; Madrid, 1667. [From his Historia de Mindanao,
    Ioló, etc.]                                                  99
    Letter on the Filipinos. Gaspar de San Agustín, O.S.A.;
    1720                                                        183
    The native peoples and their customs. Juan Francisco de
    San Antonio, O.S.F.; Manila, 1738. [From his Crónicas.]     296

ILLUSTRATIONS

    Photographic facsimile of frontispiece to Colin's Labor
    evangélica (Madrid, 1663); from the copy in possession of
    Edward E. Ayer, of Chicago                                   39

    Title-page of Historia de las islas de Mindanao, etc., by
    Francisco Combés, S.J., (Madrid, M. DC. LXVII):
    photographic facsimile from copy in library of Harvard
    University                                                  101

    Title-page of Conquistas de las islas Philipinas,
    by Gaspar de San Augustin; photographic facsimile
    from copy in Biblioteca-Museo de Ultramar, Madrid           185

    Autograph signature of Gaspar de San Augustin; photographic
    facsimile from original manuscript in collection of Eduardo
    Navarro, O.S.A., of the Colegio de Filipinas, Valladolid
                                                      facing p. 278

PREFACE

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