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 XLVII, 1728-1759 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 XLVII Preface 11 Documents of 1728-1759 The Santa Misericordia of Manila. Juan Bautista de Uriarte; Manila, 1728 23 Survey of the Filipinas Islands. Fernando Valdés Tamón; Manila, 1739. (To this is added, "The ecclesiastical estate in the aforesaid Philipinas islands," by Pablo Francisco Rodriguez de Berdozido; [Manila], 1742.) 86 The Order of St. John of God. Juan Maldonado de Puga; Granada, 1742 161 Letter to the president of the India Council. Pedro Calderon y Enriquez; Manila, July 16, 1746 230 Letter of a Jesuit to his brother. Antonio Masvesi; Cavite, December 2, 1749 243 Commerce of the Philipinas Islands. Nicolas Norton Nicols; Manila, [1759] 251 Bibliographical Data 285 Appendix: Relation of the Zambals. Domingo Perez, O.P.; Manila, 1680 289 ILLUSTRATIONS