The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 38, 1674-1683 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

Manila and the Philippines about 1650 (concluded). Domingo Fernandez Navarrete, O.P.; Madrid, 1676. [From his Tratados historicos.] 17 Condition of the clergy of the Philippines...

1. I entered the college of Santo Thomàs for the third time, and that time it was to teach the morning classes in theology. The last of April of the following year, the archbish...

1. Don Sabiniano Manrique was governing to the satisfaction of the community. No governor in the world has ever kept all the people satisfied, or ever will. However, some restle...

[The large and fertile island of Macasar, which is located near Borneo, is ruled by one called the sumbanco (signifying "emperor"), who has many petty kings subject to him. Comm...

[See VOL. XXIV, pp. 165, 175, 177, 216, 217, 229; and fuller account of that in Caraga, in Concepción's Hist. de Philipinas, v, pp. 163-179 (in our VOL. XXXV, pp. 89-91).]