Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholicmissions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditionsof those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century
Volume V, 1582–1583
Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne.
1 This document is presented in both Spanish text and Englishtranslation.
Illustrations
Map of South America and Antilles, showing Strait of Magellan (original in colors), in Beschryvinghe van de gantsche Custe, by Jan Huygen van Linschoten (Amstelredam, M.D.XCVI); reduced photographic facsimile, from copy in Boston Public Library214, 215
Autograph signature of Domingo de Salazar, O.P., first bishop of Manila; photographic facsimile from MS. in Archivo generalde Indias, Sevilla 253
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Preface
The period covered by this volume is short—only the years 1582–83, which close the second decade of Spanish occupation ofthe Philippine Islands; but in that time occur some events of great importa