The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 50: 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 50: 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 is drawn: 700 varas to 13 cm. The size of the original MS. map
is 94 × 64 cm.]
[14] Cf. Anda's earlier management of revenues: "Anda insisted that his
successor should review the accounts of his administration; and the
result of the expert examination was, that in spite of the war which
Anda had maintained, and of the fact that he had paid for whatever
expenditures were necessary, he had consumed only the comparatively
insignificant sum of 610,225 pesos. Thus out of the 3,000,000 pesos
which he received by the ship 'Filipino,' the large amount of more
than 2,000,000 found its way into the treasury." (Montero y Vidal,
Hist. de Filipinas, ii, pp. 115, 116.)
On January 14, 1765, Viana rendered an opinion (see his Respuestas,
fol. 67v-74) regarding the protest made by the citizens of Manila
against the royal order that they must contribute 180,000 pesos
for the king's needs; he rebukes their selfishness, timidity, and
lack of loyalty, but advises the governor to convene the citizens,
and ask them for spontaneous and loyal offerings to meet the needs
of the royal treasury. The contribution demanded was to be repaid
by lading-space on the Acapulco galleon, with which arrangement
the citizens were dissatisfied; but Viana refutes their objections,
and reminds the Audiencia of the expenses for troops, administration,
etc., which are necessary for the protection and defense of those very
citizens. In this document, Viana states that of the money saved from
the treasure brought to Manila by the "Filipino," 1,000,000 pesos was
distributed among the obras pías, and half as much to the citizens; and
that later Torre ordered that all of it be handed over to the latter.
[15] See also Le Gentil's account of the earthquakes which he
experienced while at Manila (Voyage, ii, pp. 360-366). He states that
the Spaniards distinguished two kinds of earthquakes: terræ moto,
a trembling which "makes itself felt from below upward;" and temblor,
when the trembling is felt in undulations, like those of the sea.
A list of the earthquakes which the Philippine Islands (and especially
Manila) have suffered was made by Alexis Perrey, and published in
the Mémoires of the Academy of Dijon, in 1860. (Jagor, Reisen, p. 6.)
[16] See, as an instance of this, the citation made by Mas (Informe,
i, part ii of "Historia," pp. 18, 19) from a MS. by Martínez Zúñiga,
complaining of Anda's conduct toward the friars. Mas, however,
cordially endorses most of Anda's conduct while in command in
Filipinas.
[17] See this document, post (Anda's Memorial). Montero y Vidal cites
a section from it, and compares several paragraphs of another one with
the royal instructions, to show their similarity; see his Hist. de
Filipinas, ii, pp. 239-244.
[18] Fray Miguel Garcia, bishop of Nueva Segovia, died at Vigan,
on November 11, 1779.
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