The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 51, 1801-1840: 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 51, 1801-1840: 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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[142] Bernaldez refers to the massacre of foreigners in 1820, and
the mutiny under Novales in 1823, both of which are related in the
first document of this volume.
[143] In the Archivo general de Indias at Sevilla is a MS. map, drawn
(June 20, 1773) by the government engineer at Manila, Miguel A. Gomez,
showing "portion of the site on the river of Tanay, indicating the plan
of the iron-works for casting anchors and artillery, and the shop for
casting the small iron articles which are called in the Philippine
archipelago cauas--which are equivalent to kettles, boilers, and
frying-pans, and which the Chinese or Sangleys manufacture with so
great skill and dexterity." Gomez estimated that this establishment
would cost "at least 175,000 pesos, without reckoning the cost of
the dwelling-houses" for officials, artisans, and laborers.
[144] The native name for the annotto (Bixa orellana), the seeds of
which produce a yellow substance used for coloring cheese, butter, etc.
[145] Polizon: "a person who embarks by stealth and without a passport,
in the ships which sail to America." (Dominguez.)
[146] "The association of the Audiencia with the governor began
in 1527, with Cortes, as the court recognized the impossibility
of controlling so great a hero by means of a single, and perhaps
insignificant, man. (Roscher, Spanish Colonial system, Bourne's ed.,
p. 24, note 5.)
[147] The writer here adds: "This exportation is of very little
importance in the markets of Asia, where the more usual and cheaper
beverage for the people is Rak [English, "arrack"], or wine made
from rice."
[148] In 1853 a pamphlet was published at Madrid, written by Sinibaldo
de Mas, entitled, Articulo sobre las rentas de Filipinas y los medios
de aumentarlas," written for the Boletin Oficial of the Treasury
Department." (Vindel, Catálogo biblioteca filipina, no. 1558.)
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