The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 44, 1700-1736: 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 44, 1700-1736: 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
[16] One of the very rare allusions to this mode of conducting
commerce, as used among the Moros, which--although common enough in
all parts of the world from very early times, and practiced by most
peoples who have risen beyond the savage condition--seems to have been
even to the present time undeveloped among the Moros, partly on account
of their fierce natures and the feuds among them, partly because of
their habits of piracy, plunder, and bloodshed. Of especial interest
in this connection is the account published in the New York Outlook,
December 23, 1905, of the "Moro Exchange" established at Zamboanga,
Mindanao (July, 1904), by Captain John P. Finley, governor of Zamboanga
district. Intended from the outset to replace slavery and piracy by
honest labor, it has gradually gained the respect and coöperation
of the Moro chiefs; and by taking advantage of their talent for
trade is exerting a wide and strong influence in the development
of industry and peaceful relations among them. This exchange even
in its first year had a volume of business amounting to $128,000;
and now its daily transactions run from 500 to 800 pesos, while in
the Zamboanga district it has fourteen branches.
[17] Spanish, al reir del alba, literally, "at the smile of the dawn."
[18] Limbo (from Latin, limbus): in scholastic theology, a region
bordering on hell, where souls were detained for a time; hence,
applied to any place of restraint or confinement.
[19] The lists of Augustinian friars in the Philippines record the
names of some thirty members of that order who became insane or
demented; and probably similar lists could be given by the other
orders. Perez's Catálogo (Manila, 1901), and Gaspar Cano's Catálogo
(Manila, 1864) present biographical information regarding all the
members of the order who labored in the islands from 1565 down to
their respective dates of publication; Pérez enumerates 2,467 for
the term of 336 years from 1565 to 1901, and of these 1,992 belong
to Cano's period, ending in 1864. Cano names thirty friars (two of
them being lay brothers) who died in a demented condition; the first
of these was Fray Francisco de Canga Rodriguez (1616), who was 55
years professed. Pérez mentions but twenty-seven of Cano's list, but
adds four others for the years following Cano's record (1865-1901),
a total of thirty-one names. Both these compilers record the facts of
dementia among the friars in varied phrases; and Cano speaks (p. 20)
of "the many things which there are in Filipinas to cause the loss
of one's mind." Zúñiga, in his Estadismo, refers to the liability
of the missionaries in the islands to suffer mental alienation from
homesickness, solitude, and lack of congenial companions, especially
in districts where the natives were of low intellectual calibre. When
I was a student in Rome, Pope Pius IX had a college (the Pio Latino)
opened for Spanish Americans (from Mexico and South America); this
was about 1860.
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