The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 45, 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 45, 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
and that they be under the official inspection, such a course making
it possible to have a real compulsory school law. The Liceo de Manila
is a school organized and run by Filipinos. The late C. J. Zulueta
was professor of history in this school and read an address at its
opening, June 19, 1902. See LeRoy's Philippine Life, pp. 223, 224;
Census of Philippines, iii, pp. 599, 600; Report of Commissioner
of Education, 1899-1900, ii, p. 1622, 1901, ii, pp. 1437, 1438;
and Archipiélago Filipino, i, pp. 344, 345.
[122] i.e., Those wearing the cape or cloak.
[123] Later transformed into the Ateneo Municipal, q.v., post.
[124] This school was located in the same building as the nautical
school, and was established July 15, 1839 at the request of the
board of trade, which had presented its petition to this effect,
October 1, 1838. The report of 1883 shows a total enrolment of 562
pupils in double entry bookkeeping for the years 1866-72, with a
graduation of 91; and an enrolment of 228 for the study of English,
with a graduation of 57. See Census of Philippines, iii, p. 614;
and Montero y Vidal, Historia, iii, p. 30.
[125] See these instructions, in VOL. VII, pp. 141-172.
[126] See VOL. XVIII, pp. 282-288 for documents of 1610-19 regarding
the grant of an encomienda made to this school or seminary.
[127] Perhaps for pinaua, which signifies "half-pounded rice," or
"rice without the husk, but not bleached."
[128] Its foundation was approved in 1816, and endowed with the
fitting rules and vocations, it had for some time only the character
of a beaterio. In 1865 it was elevated to the rank of a school of
higher grade. See Archipiélago Filipino, i, pp. 352, 353.
[129] These statistics show that Mas has been the chief authority
followed by Mallat.
[130] Inasmuch as this citation was translated from Mas by Mallat,
we have used Mas's words in preference to retranslating Mallat.
[131] See Mallat, i, pp. 367-369.
[132] Retana mentions a paper, El Noticiero Filipino, which he
conjectures to have been founded in 1838, following Francisco Diaz
Puertas, who mentions it. Retana refers to this passage of Mallat. See
his Periodismo filipino (Madrid, 1895), for data regarding the various
newspapers and periodicals of the Philippines. This also appeared in
instalments in Retana's magazine La Política de España en Filipinas.
[133] See "Drama of the Filipinos" by Arthur Stanley Riggs in Journal
of American Folk-Lore, xvii, no. lxvii; and Barrantes's El teatro
tagalo (Madrid, 1889). Mr. Riggs has ready for the press also a book
on the drama of the Filipinos.
[134] "In the atlas is found the Comintango de la languista, noted
with the accompaniment of piano and guitar, to which we have joined
the words." (Mallat, ii, p. 247, note). Bowring reproduces this music
at the end of his Visit to the Philippines.
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