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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 48, 1751-1765: 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 — John Shaqi

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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 48, 1751-1765: 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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of Manila with Nueva España via the Panama route, in case that by
Cape Good Hope prove impracticable, and sets forth its advantages;
he suggests that for this purpose that route be improved, and perhaps
a canal be made between the two oceans; and closes with an appeal to
the Spanish government for aid to this project.

The Editors

January, 1907.

DOCUMENTS OF 1751-1762

Usurpation of Indian lands by friars. Fernando VI; November 7, 1751.
Moro raids repulsed by Visayans. [Unsigned; 1755]
Augustinian parishes and missions, 1760. Pedro Velasco, O.S.A.;
April 16, 1760.
Later Augustinian and Dominican missions. Antonio Mozo, O.S.A.;
1763. Bernardo Ustáriz, O.P.; 1745.
Events in Filipinas, 1739-1762. [Compiled from Martinez de Zúñiga
and other writers.]

    Sources: The first of these documents is obtained from La
    Democracia (Manila), November 25, 1901; the second, from a rare
    pamphlet published at Manila (1755), in the possession of Edward
    E. Ayer, Chicago; the third, from an original MS. in possession
    of Mr. Ayer; the fourth, from Mozo's Noticia histórico natural
    (Madrid, 1763), and a rare pamphlet by the Dominican Ustáriz, both
    from copies in the Library of Congress; the fifth, compiled from
    Zúñiga's Historia (Sampaloc, 1803), pp. 546-601, and Concepción's
    Hist. de Philipinas, xi, pp. 89-237, fully annotated from other
    writers.

    Translations: That of the third document is made by James Alexander
    Robertson; all the rest, by Emma Helen Blair.

USURPATION OF INDIAN LANDS BY FRIARS

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