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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 06 of 55 1583-1588 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

Blair, Emma Helen, 1851-1911 [Editor]; Bourne, Edward Gaylord, 1860-1908 [Commentator]; Robertson, James Alexander, 1873-1939 [Editor]· 3 chapters· 83,103 words

The Editors desire to announce to their readers an important modification in the scope and contents of this work. As originally planned and hitherto announced, the series was intended to furnish the original sources, printed and documentary, for the history of the Philippine I...

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3. Chapter seven. Of the forts and presidios needed in this country

1. _That Manila should be walled, and the ease with which this can be accomplished._ First: His Majesty should be informed of the ease and cheapness with which stone buildings a...

2. part ii) the efforts of the Augustinian friars to carry the gospel

to the Chinese. These are unavailing until, after the defeat of the Chinese pirate Limahon (whose exploits are narrated in some detail) by the Spanish forces, a Chinese officer...

1. Volume VI, 1583-1588

The Editors desire to announce to their readers an important modification in the scope and contents of this work. As originally planned and hitherto announced, the series was in...