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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 47, 1728-1759: 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 47, 1728-1759: 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

Map of the Philippine Islands; photographic facsimile
    of original MS. map (ca. 1742) in Museo-Biblioteca de
    Ultramar, Madrid                                      Frontispiece
    Plan of Manila, ca. 1742; photographic facsimile from
    original manuscript in Museo-Biblioteca de Ultramar,
    Madrid                                                          89
    Plan of Cavite and its fortifications, (ca. 1742);
    photographic facsimile from original manuscript in
    Museo-Biblioteca de Ultramar, Madrid                           107
    Cebú and its fortifications, ca. 1742; photographic
    facsimile from original manuscript in Museo-Biblioteca
    de Ultramar, Madrid                                            115
    Plan of fort at Zamboanga, 1742; photographic facsimile
    from original manuscript in Museo-Biblioteca de
    Ultramar, Madrid                                               121
    Church of San Juan de Dios, Manila, in Religiosa
    hospitalidad, by Juan M. Maldonado de Puga (Granada,
    1742), facing p. 148; photographic facsimile from copy
    in collection of Eduardo Navarro, O.S.A., at Colegio
    de Filipinas, Valladolid                                       177








PREFACE


The documents presented in this volume (which covers the years 1728-59)
form a comprehensive and interesting survey of the islands and their
condition--social, religious, military, and commercial--during the
middle portion of the eighteenth century; and the writers of these
are prominent in their respective spheres of action. The appendix
furnishes a valuable description of the savage Zambals of western
Luzón, written by a Dominican missionary among that people in 1680.

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