Chapter I: Front Matter

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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 XLIII, 1670-1700

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
MXMVI

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XLIII

Preface 9

Document of 1670-1700

Dominican Missions, 1670-1700. Vicente de Salazar, O.P.
[From his Historia de el Santissimo Rosario (Manila, 1742).] 27

Bibliographical Data 95

Appendix: Some later ethnological features of the Philippines

Preliminary note 99

Superstitions and beliefs of the Filipinos. Tomas Ortiz,
O.S.A.; ca., 1731. [From his Practica del Ministerio (MS.)] 103

The people of the Philippines. Joaquin Martinez de Zuniga,
O.S.A. Sampaloc, 1803. [From his Historia de las Islas
Philipinas.] 113

Jolo and the Sulus. Charles Wilkes, U.S.N., Philadelphia,
1844. [From his Narrative of the United States Exploring
Expedition.] 128

Letter from Father Quirico More. Davao, January 20, 1885.
[From Cartas de los PP. de la Compania de Jesus, Manila,
1887.] 193

Letter from Father Pedro Rosell. Caraga, April 17, 1885.
[From ut supra.] 212

Letters from Father Mateo Gisbert. Davao, January 4,
February 8, February 20, July 26, December 24, 1886.
[From ut supra.] 229

Letter from Father Pablo Cavalleria. Isabela
de Basilan, December 31, 1886. [From ut supra.] 255

Extract from a letter from Father Pablo
Pastells. Manila, April 20, 1887. [From ut supra.] 268

Letter from Father Jose Maria Clotet. Talisayan, May 11,
1889. [From Cartas de los PP. de la Compania de Jesus,
Manila, 1891.] 288

Present beliefs and superstitions in Luzon. Jose Nunez,
Manila, December 6, 1905. [From supplement of El
Renacimiento, December 9, 1905.] 310

ILLUSTRATIONS

Chart of the harbor bar of Manila, and vicinity of
river Pasig, 1757; photographic facsimile from original
manuscript in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla 35

Plan of the bay and city of Manila; photographic facsimile
of map 58 in Apres de Mannevillette's Le Neptune oriental
(Paris, 1745); from copy of original map in Library of Congress 129

Map of the Caroline Islands; photographic facsimile of map in
Lettres edifiantes (Paris, 1728), xviii, facing p. 189; from
copy in library of Harvard University 231

The Philippine barangay; from photograph taken
by Otto Fischer, 1888; procured in Madrid 271