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 XLVI, 1721-1739 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 MCMVII CONTENTS OF VOLUME XLVI Preface 13 Document of 1721-1739 Events in Filipinas, 1721-1739. Compiled from various authors, fully credited in text 31 Bibliographical Data 63 Appendix: Education in the Philippines Primary instruction. In various parts, as follows: I. First governmental attempts. Vicente Barrantes; Madrid, 1869. [Condensed from his La instrucción primaria en Filipinas.] II. Organized effort of legislation. Daniel Grifol y Aliaga; Manila, 1894. [From preface to his La instrucción primaria en Filipinas.] III. Royal decree establishing plan of primary instruction in Filipinas. José de la Concha; December 20, 1863. [From Grifol y Aliaga's La instrucción primaria en Filipinas; as are all the following parts.] IV. Regulations for the normal school. José de la Concha; December 20, 1863. V. Regulations for schools and teachers of primary instruction. José de la Concha; December 20, 1863. VI. Interior regulations of schools of primary instruction. José de la Concha; December 20, 1863. VII. Decree approving regulations of municipal girls' school.----Echague; February 15, 1864. VIII. Regulations for the municipal girls' school. Manila Ayuntamiento; February 15, 1864. IX. Circular giving rules for the good discharge of school supervision.----Gándara; August 30, 1867. X. Decree approving regulations for women's normal school.----Malcampo; June 19, 1875. XI. Regulations for women's normal school.----Malcampo; June 19, 1875. XII. Royal decree creating women's normal school. María Cristina and Francisco Romero Robledo; March 11, 1892. XIII. Royal order approving regulations for women's normal school. Francisco Romero Robledo; March 31, 1892. XIV. Regulations for women's normal school. Francisco Romero Robledo; March 31, 1892. XV. Decree elevating men's normal school to the grade of superior. Hermenegildo Jacas; November 1, 1893; and A. Avilés and Manuel Blanco Valderrama, November