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 16, 1609

The documents presented in this volume (which covers the years 1728-59) form a comprehensive and interesting survey of the islands and their condition-social, religious, military, and commercial - during the middle portion of the eighteenth century; and the writers of these are prominent in their re...

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