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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55, 1638–40 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]· 5 chapters· 85,366 words

View of one of Ladrones Islands; photographic facsimile of engraving in Hulsius's Eigentliche und wahrhaftige Beschreibung (Franckfurt am Mayne, M.DC.XX), p. 66; from copy in library of Harvard University. 169

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1. Volume XXIX, 1638-40

View of one of Ladrones Islands; photographic facsimile of engraving in Hulsius's Eigentliche und wahrhaftige Beschreibung (Franckfurt am Mayne, M.DC.XX), p. 66; from copy in li...

2. part ii--from a copy belonging to the library of Harvard University;

The patache for España left here August 24. It had a propitious season [for departure], and therefore it has apparently enjoyed favoring vendaval blasts. [1] A short time before...

3. did. He himself sent out after them, in the beginning of April, 1636,

a large fleet in command of a Moro chief named Tagal. This fleet, as our garrison was but recently established, was able to proceed to our islands, and attacking many places, to...

4. part ii--from a copy belonging to the library of Harvard University.

Today, August 14, I learned that thirteen Macasars and Basilas, of those who had been sold as slaves, had fled in a small boat, and that they had been furnished with arms. Some...

5. CHAPTER VI

After the death of the lord archbishop Don Fray Miguel García Serrano, the ecclesiastical cabildo of Manila attempted to interfere in the government of the vacant see--alleging...