The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803; 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, commericial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century; [Vol. 1, no. 36]

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live in wooden houses; they have a governor of their
own nation, and a Spanish alcalde-mayor and the
other officers of justice, with a notary; also a jail.
They have a parish church, where the sacraments,
the divine word, and burial are administered to the
4,000 Christians among these Sangleys; the rest of
them are heathen.
37. Accordingly the commerce of this city is extensive, rich, and unusually profitable; for it is carried on by all these Chinese and their ships, with
those of all the islands above mentioned and of Tunquin, Cochinchina, Camboja, and Sian - four separate kingdoms, which lie opposite these islands on
the continent of Great China- and of the gulfs and
the numberless kingdoms of Eastern India, Persia,
Bengala, and Ceilan, when there are no wars; and of
the empire and kingdoms of Xapon. The diversity
of the peoples, therefore, who are seen in Manila
and its environs is the greatest in the world; for these
include men from all kingdoms and nations- Espana, Francia, Ingalaterra, Italia, Flandes, Alemania, Dinamarca, Sueqia, Polonia, Moscobia; people from all the Indias, both eastern and western;
and Turks, Greeks, Moros, Persians, Tartars,
Chinese, Japanese, Africans, and Asiatics. And
hardly is there in the four quarters of the world a
kingdom, province, or nation which has not representatives here, on account of the voyages that are
made hither from all directions-east, west, north,
and south.
38-58. [These sections are devoted to brief biographical notices of the governors of the islands - information already presented in our VOL. XVII. Le,tona says (no. 58) of Diego Fajardo's government:]