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. 48]

USURPATION OF INDIAN LANDS BY
FRIARS
To the president and auditors of my royal Audiencia of the Filipinas Islands, resident in the city of
Manila:' Don Pedro Enriquez, an auditor of that
same Audiencia, made a report, with sworn statements of his proceedings, of what he had done under
the commission which was conferred on him by the
government there for the pacification of the villages
of Taguig, Hagonoy, Parafaque, Bacoor, Cavite el
Viejo, and other places attached to them which lie
near that capital, all which had revolted. [He reported that] they were pacified by merely the proclamation of a general pardon (except to the chief
instigators of the revolt) which he published, and by
the promise that their complaints should be heard
and justice done to them; but the village of San Mateo also revolted, and he proceeded to its punishment
1This document was printed in the Manila newspaper La
Democracia (the organ of the Federal party), on November 25,
1901; it was furnished to that paper by Hugo Salazar, a young
Filipino - a native of Luzon, educated as a pharmacist, prominent
in the Federal party during 1901-04, and in I903-04 governor
of Surigao province, Mindanao - under the pen-name of " Ambut."
It was printed with accompanying comments written by him,
which here appear as foot-notes, signed "AMBUT." We are indebted to the courtesy of James A. LeRoy (now [I906] U. S.
consul at Durango, Mexico) for a copy of the above issue of
La Democracia, and for the above information.