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 XLIV, 1700-1736 Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne. The Arthur H. Clark Company Cleveland, Ohio MCMVI CONTENTS OF VOLUME XLIV Preface 11 Documents of 1700-1730 Jesuit missions in the seventeenth century. Pedro Murillo Velarde; Manila, 1749 27 Condition of the islands, 1701. José Vila, O.P., and others; Manila, October 7, 1701 120 Events of 1701-1715. [Summarized from Concepción's Historia de Philipinas.] 142 The government and death of Bustamante. Diego de Otazo, S.J., and others; Manila, 1719-20 148 Letter by a Spanish officer. Manuel de Santistevan; Manila, January 28, 1730 196 Commerce of the Philippines with Nueva España, 1640-1736 (to be concluded). Antonio Álvarez de Abreu; Madrid, 1736. [From Extracto historial.] 227 Bibliographical Data 313 ILLUSTRATIONS Photographic facsimile of frontispiece to Pedro Murillo Velarde's Historia de la provincia de Philipinas (Manila, 1749); from copy possessed by Edward E. Ayer, Chicago Frontispiece Map of Mindanao, showing Spanish settlements, and districts occupied by the Jesuits and Recollects; photographic facsimile from original MS. (dated 1683) in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla 51 Plan of the palace, Audiencia hall, and exchequer of Manila; photographic facsimile from original MS. in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla 153 Plan of fortifications at Zamboanga, 1719; photographic facsimile of original manuscript map in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla 163 PREFACE