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. 12]

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XII

Preface........ 9
Documents of 1601-1602
Expedition to the Malucas Islands. Arias
de Saldanha, and others; I601-02.. 29
Principal points in regard to the trade of the
Filipinas. Alonso Fernandez de Castro;
[undated; 1602?].....46
Various documents relating to commerce.
Fray Martin Ignacio de Loyola, and
others; [ca. 1602].... 57
Letter to Felipe III. Antonio de Morga;
Manila, December I.... 76
Documents of I603
Three Chinese Mandarins at Manila. Geronimo de Salazar y Salcedo; Manila,
May 27.......83
Resignation of his office by the bishop of
Nueva Segovia. Miguel de Benavides;
Manila, June 4...... 98
Letters to Felipe III. Miguel de Benavides; Manila, July 5 and 6... IoI
Letters to Felipe III. Pedro de Acufia,
and others; Manila, July-December.. I27
The Sangley insurrection. Pedro de
Acunia, and others; Manila, December
12-23...... 142
Relacion de las Islas Filipinas (to be concluded). Pedro Chirino, S.J.; Roma, I604. I69
Bibliographical Data..... 323

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