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
2 esmerils of bronze, of 8-onza caliber.
4 small iron cannon, of the same caliber.
101 swivel-guns, with 216 chambers and quoins, of iron.
16,905 iron cannon-balls, suitable for the said artillery.
207 bar-shots of iron, "diamond point."
67 iron crowbars.
22 iron angelots. [7]
190 iron grenades.
142 muskets.
221 match-lock arquebuses.
16 guns, some with bayonets.
9 pistols.
1 blunderbuss.
6,672 balls corresponding to these weapons--2,910 of iron, 62
angel--[i.e., double-headed] shot, and the rest of lead.
480 hand-weapons--Turkish swords, broadswords, cutlasses
[machetes], lances, pikes, halberds, partisans, half-moons,
spears, languinatas, and spontoons.
400 arrobas of gunpowder, kept in reserve.
The fighting men of the said port of Cavité and its fortress (who
are in one body, just as the above-mentioned supplies are considered
collectively) comprise three companies of Spanish infantry--one
commanded by the warden, another by the sargento-mayor, and another by
a captain--with 180 soldiers in all, with their leading officers and
minor posts. There is also a captain of artillery, with twenty-four
artillerymen; the deputy of the castellan; three orderlies; two
carpenters for the gun-carriages of the artillery; and one military
notary. There is, besides, a company of Pampango infantry with
its master-of-camp, sargento-mayor, and other officers, with two
hundred and twenty regular soldiers, one hundred and twenty of whom
are assigned to work as sawyers. All the officers and soldiers, both
Spaniards and Pampangos (except the warden and the notary) receive
a suitable ration of rice and their pay in cash monthly. The wages
amount to 11,500 pesos, and the rations to 3,084 fanegas of rice. These
are furnished from the royal treasury and the storehouses in Manila,
according to the list here set down.
Officers: The warden, 100 pesos; the sargento-mayor, 25 p.; one
captain of Spanish infantry, 15 p.; the alferezes, each 4 p.; the
sergeants, each 3 p.; one captain of artillery, 15 p.; the deputy of
the castellan, 15 p.; three orderlies, each 6 p.; one military notary,
8 p.; the Pampango master-of-camp, 10 p.; the sargento-mayor of that
people, 6 p., 4 t.; the alférez, sergeant, and adjutant of the said
nation, each 2 p., 4 t.
Soldiers: The Spanish soldiers, each 2 pesos; the pages,
standard-bearers, drummers, and fifer, each 2 p.; the artillerymen,
each 2 p.; two carpenters for the artillery, each 2 p.; minor posts in
the Pampango company--standard-bearer, fifer, and drummer--each [blank]
p., 6 t.; 220 Pampango soldiers, each 1 p., 2 t. Of the Pampangos the
following receive extra pay, with the title of sawyers: three each,
4 p.; another, 2 p., 4 t.; another, 2 p.; and eighteen others, each
1 p., 4 t.
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