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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 — John Shaqi

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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

Plan of the city of Manila and its environs and suburbs
    on the other side of the river, by the pilot Francisco
    Xavier Estorgo y Gallegos, 1770; photographic facsimile
    from original MS. map (in colors) in Archivo general de
    Indias, Sevilla                                                35
    Plan of the present condition of Manila and its environs,
    drawn by the engineer Feliciano Márquez, Manila, September
    30, 1767; photographic facsimile from original MS. map
    (in colors) in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla              83
    Map of the river of Cagayan, showing town sites along its
    banks, 1720(?); drawn by Juan Luis de Acosta; photographic
    facsimile from original MS map in Archivo general de
    Indias, Sevilla                                          182, 183
    Map of Manila Bay, port of Cavite, and Lake of Bay, showing
    depths of various parts of the bay, drawn by the engineer
    Feliciano Márquez, September 28, 1767; from original MS. map
    (in colors) in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla             201
    Map of Guam, one of the Marianas Islands, in Concepción's
    Historia general (Sampaloc, 1788-1792), vii, facing p. 145;
    photographic facsimile from copy in library of Harvard
    University                                                    291








PREFACE


In this volume is a brief outline of events from the restoration
of Manila by the English (1764) to 1800; and a group of documents
relating to the more important topics in the first decade of that
period. The condition of the islands and their people at that time
is well described by the able and patriotic officials Viana and Anda;
and the "ordinances of good government" are an important addition to
our sources of information regarding the administration of justice in
Filipinas. The most important event of that time was the expulsion of
the Jesuits from the Spanish dominions, although its great significance
in Europe was but feebly reflected in those remote colonies.

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