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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many servants of various nations, amounting to more
than four thousand men and women.
Hamlets falling in the circumference of the
city of Manila
Outside and near the walls of the city lies the
parish of Santiago where one beneficed secular has
charge of all the Spaniards who live outside the said
walls. The village of San Antonio is also near the
walls, and is in charge of a beneficed secular.
The village of Quiapo, which lies on the other
side of the river, is administered by the said beneficed secular.
The village called La Hermita, in whose temple
is the venerated image of Nuestra Sefiora de Guia,
is two musket-shots away from the walls of Manila,
and is administered by a beneficed secular.
The village called Parian, the alcaiceria where
the Chinese merchants and workmen live-most of
that people being infidels, and few of them Christian - are in charge of religious of St. Dominic.
This place is close to the walls.
There is a small village next the walls called San
Juan, which is in charge of the discalced religious of
St. Augustine.
Another village, somewhat farther from the walls
than the said San Juan, and called Malatte, is in
charge of the calced Augustinian fathers.
Another very near village, called Dilao, is where
some Japanese Christians live, separated from the
natives; and their administration, as well as that of
the natives, is in charge of religious of St. Francis.
There is another small village contiguous to that
of Dilao, called San Miguel, which has a house of