An Historical View of the Philippine Islands, Vol 1 (of 2) / Exhibiting their discovery, population, language, government, manners, customs, productions and commerce.

An Historical View of the Philippine Islands.

AN HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS:
EXHIBITING THEIR DISCOVERY, POPULATION, LANGUAGE, GOVERNMENT, MANNERS, CUSTOMS, PRODUCTIONS AND COMMERCE.
FROM THE SPANISH OF Martinez de Zuñiga.
PUBLISHED AT MANILA, 1803. IN TWO VOLUMES. WITH A NEW AND ACCURATE MAP OF THE ISLANDS, FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE.
TRANSLATED BY JOHN MAVER, ESQ.
VOL. I. LONDON : PRINTED FOR J. ASPERNE, CORNHILL; AND NONAVILLE AND FELL, NEW BOND-STREET: By T. Davison, Whitefriars . 1814.


The original, of which the following translation is offered to the English reader, is, probably, the only copy which has yet reached this country. Whether the chance which threw it in the way of the translator may be deemed fortunate or otherwise must be left to the decision of the candid public; but it appeared to him that the information it contains respecting a Spanish colony, the most interesting of any other to a British subject, supplies that desideratum so much wanted in our language;— a correct view down to a very late period of the Spanish establishments in the Philippines .