Present beliefs and superstitions in Luzón. José Nuñez, Manila, December 6, 1905. [From supplement of El Renacimiento, December 9, 1905.] 310 ILLUSTRATIONS Chart of the harbor bar of Manila, and vicinity of river Pasig, 1757; photographic facsimile from original manuscript in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla 35 Plan of the bay and city of Manila; photographic facsimile of map 58 in Aprés de Mannevillette's Le Neptune oriental (Paris, 1745); from copy of original map in Library of Congress 129 Map of the Caroline Islands; photographic facsimile of map in Lettres édifiantes (Paris, 1728), xviii, facing p. 189; from copy in library of Harvard University 231 The Philippine barangay; from photograph taken by Otto Fischer, 1888; procured in Madrid 271 PREFACE This volume carries forward the history of the Dominican order in the Philippines, and, like the other instalments of Dominican history, or, to speak more broadly, of the history of the orders, contains many interesting sidelights. The increasing power of the order is well seen in the new arrivals of missionaries from Spain, and their pushing out into the territory regarded by the Recollects as their own, to the detriment of the latter, which the Dominicans are able to do through the great influence of Felipe Pardo, the archbishop. The tone of the history is one of ecclesiastical jealousy and aggrandizement. In the appendix which treats in great part of the Moros and peoples of Mindanao, the chief things to note are the similarity of these latter-day Malay peoples in many of their customs and characteristics with the early Filipinos as described by the early writers. The persistence of the old superstitious beliefs in the province of Nueva Ecija, Luzón, is interesting, and probably typical of the islands as a whole, at least in districts somewhat out of the usual line of travel. As this appendix shows, there is yet much work for the ethnologist in all parts of the Philippines.