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 XLVII, 1728-1759

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
MCMVII

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XLVII

Preface 11

Documents of 1728-1759

The Santa Misericordia of Manila. Juan Bautista de
Uriarte; Manila, 1728 23
Survey of the Filipinas Islands. Fernando Valdés Tamón;
Manila, 1739. (To this is added, "The ecclesiastical
estate in the aforesaid Philipinas islands," by Pablo
Francisco Rodriguez de Berdozido; [Manila], 1742.) 86
The Order of St. John of God. Juan Maldonado de Puga;
Granada, 1742 161
Letter to the president of the India Council. Pedro
Calderon y Enriquez; Manila, July 16, 1746 230
Letter of a Jesuit to his brother. Antonio Masvesi;
Cavite, December 2, 1749 243
Commerce of the Philipinas Islands. Nicolas Norton
Nicols; Manila, [1759] 251

Bibliographical Data 285
Appendix: Relation of the Zambals. Domingo Perez, O.P.;
Manila, 1680 289

ILLUSTRATIONS

Map of the Philippine Islands; photographic facsimile
of original MS. map (ca. 1742) in Museo-Biblioteca de
Ultramar, Madrid Frontispiece
Plan of Manila, ca. 1742; photographic facsimile from
original manuscript in Museo-Biblioteca de Ultramar,
Madrid 89
Plan of Cavite and its fortifications, (ca. 1742);
photographic facsimile from original manuscript in
Museo-Biblioteca de Ultramar, Madrid 107
Cebú and its fortifications, ca. 1742; photographic
facsimile from original manuscript in Museo-Biblioteca
de Ultramar, Madrid 115
Plan of fort at Zamboanga, 1742; photographic facsimile
from original manuscript in Museo-Biblioteca de
Ultramar, Madrid 121
Church of San Juan de Dios, Manila, in Religiosa
hospitalidad, by Juan M. Maldonado de Puga (Granada,
1742), facing p. 148; photographic facsimile from copy
in collection of Eduardo Navarro, O.S.A., at Colegio
de Filipinas, Valladolid 177