Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 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, Volume LII, 1841-1898 Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne. The Arthur H. Clark Company Cleveland, Ohio MCMVII CONTENTS OF VOLUME LII Preface 13 Documents of 1841-1898 Internal political condition of the Philippines. Sinibaldo de Mas; Madrid, 1842 29 Matta's report. Juan Manuel de la Matta; Manila, February 25, 1843 91 The Philippines, 1860-1898: some comment and bibliographical notes. James A. LeRoy; Durango, Mexico, 1907 112 Events in Filipinas, 1841-1872. [Summarized from Montero y Vidal's Historia de Filipinas.] 208 Constitution of the Liga Filipina. José Rizal; Tondo, July 3, 1892 217 The friar memorial of 1898. Manuel Gutierrez, O.S.A., and others; Manila, April 21, 1898 227 Bibliographical Data 287 Appendix: Agriculture in Filipinas. Joseph Basco y Vargas, and others 291 Errata and addenda to VOLUMES I-LII 325 ILLUSTRATIONS