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]

1649-1666] DESCRIPTION OF PHILIPINAS

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The village of San Matheo is in charge of religious of the Society of Jesus.
The village of Taitai is in charge of the said religious of the Society.
The village of Antipolo is in charge of the same
religious of the Society of Jesus.
The village of San Palo [i.e., Sampaloc] is in
charge of religious of St. Francis.
Coasting along from the city of Manila to the port
of Cavite, where the ships that sail from this kingdom anchor, and across the said river, is the village
of Parafaca, which is in charge of the calced Augustinian religious.
Port of Cabitte
The port of Cabitte is six or seven leguas distant
from Manila by land, and three by sea, and the seamen live there with a Spanish garrison; they have
their castellan, who is also the chief justice. There
is a secular cura who ministers with the help of his
assistant and sacristan. There is a college of the Society of Jesus; a convent of St. Francis, another of
St. Dominic, and another of discalced Augustinians,
as well as a hospital in charge of the religious of
St. John of God. The cura of that port also has
charge of the natives living about the walls, who are
almost all workmen who work at the building of
galleons. The same cura also has charge of the
small villages which are located on the other side of
the port. Another called Cabitte el Viexo [i.e., Old
Cavite] is in charge of fathers of the Society of
Jesus. At a distance of four or five leguas about this
port are located some cattle-ranches and some farm