Chapter I: Front Matter

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 XL, 1690-1691

Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson
with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord
Bourne.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XL

Preface 9

Document of 1691

Events at Manila, 1690-91. [Unsigned; Manila, June,
1691.] 21

Bibliographical Data 33

Appendix: Ethnological description of the Filipinos Native
races and their customs. Francisco Colin, S.J.; Madrid,
1663. [From his Labor evangélica.] 37
The natives of the southern islands. Francisco Combés,
S.J.; Madrid, 1667. [From his Historia de Mindanao,
Ioló, etc.] 99
Letter on the Filipinos. Gaspar de San Agustín, O.S.A.;
1720 183
The native peoples and their customs. Juan Francisco de
San Antonio, O.S.F.; Manila, 1738. [From his Crónicas.] 296

ILLUSTRATIONS

Photographic facsimile of frontispiece to Colin's Labor
evangélica (Madrid, 1663); from the copy in possession of
Edward E. Ayer, of Chicago 39

Title-page of Historia de las islas de Mindanao, etc., by
Francisco Combés, S.J., (Madrid, M. DC. LXVII):
photographic facsimile from copy in library of Harvard
University 101

Title-page of Conquistas de las islas Philipinas,
by Gaspar de San Augustin; photographic facsimile
from copy in Biblioteca-Museo de Ultramar, Madrid 185

Autograph signature of Gaspar de San Augustin; photographic
facsimile from original manuscript in collection of Eduardo
Navarro, O.S.A., of the Colegio de Filipinas, Valladolid
facing p. 278