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. 44]

EVENTS OF I70I-I715

[The following summary is made from Concepci6n's Historia de Philipinas, viii, pp. 299-391:]
[Don Fausto Cruzat y Gongora is succeeded,
after eleven years as governor, by Don Domingo de
Zabalburu y Echeverri, a knight of the Order of
Santiago; he was appointed in I694, but does not
take possession until September 8, I70I. Finding
considerable money in the royal treasury, he employs
it on important public works. He constructs
wharves at Cavite, completes the royal storehouses,
and rebuilds the powder-factory lower down from
Malate, with suitable fortifications for its defense;
and he pays careful attention to the construction of
galleons for the Acapulco trade-route. A quarrel
arising between the petty kings of Mindanao and
Jolo, the former (named Curay) is slain, and his
successor asks Governor Zabalburu for aid against
the Joloans, which the governor prudently declines
to furnish. In the year I705 the Manila galleon
"San Xavier" departs from Acapulco, and is never
heard from, being lost with all it contains, to the
great sorrow and loss of the citizens of Manila. One
of the auditors goes (1702) as official visitor to the
province of Camarines,86 and disturbs its affairs with
35 This was Francisco Gueruela; see summary of his report
on this visitation, in VOL. XLII, p. 120.