The Philippine Islands, 1493–1898

Explorations by early navigators, descriptions ofthe islands and their peoples, their history and records of thecatholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts,showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions ofthose islands from their earliest relations with European nations tothe close of the nineteenth century,

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Preface 9
Document of 1691
1. Events at Manila, 1690–91.[Unsigned; Manila, June, 1691.] 21
Bibliographical Data 33
Appendix: Ethnological description of the FilipinosNative races and their customs. Francisco Colin, S.J.; Madrid,1663. [From his Labor evangélica.] 37
The natives of the southern islands. FranciscoCombés, S.J.; Madrid, 1667. [From his Historia de Mindanao,Ioló, etc.] 99
Letter on the Filipinos. Gaspar de SanAgustín, O.S.A.; 1720 183
The native peoples and their customs. JuanFrancisco de San Antonio, O.S.F.; Manila, 1738. [From his Crónicas.] 296

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Photographic facsimile of frontispiece to Colin’s Labor evangélica (Madrid, 1663); from the copy inpossession 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; photographicfacsimile from original manuscript in collection of Eduardo Navarro,O.S.A., of the Colegio de Filipinas, Valladolid facing p. 278

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In the present volume but one document appears in the chronologicalorder of events in the islands; it i

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