CONTENTS.

CHAPTER. PAGE.
I.The Discovery of the Islands[13]
II.Early Settlements[27]
III.The Country and its People[42]
IV.Early Troubles[52]
V.Beginnings of Strife[61]
VI.Colonial Wars and Difficulties[70]
VII.The Spanish and the Filipinos[78]
VIII.A New Beginning[88]
IX.Trade in the Philippines[99]
X.The Islands under Arandia’s Rule[109]
XI.British Occupation[117]
XII.To the End of the Eighteenth Century[124]
XIII.The Constitution of 1812[132]
XIV.Changes in the Islands[142]
XV.Efforts to Keep Peace[151]
XVI.The Insurrection at Cavite[162]
XVII.The Uprising of 1896[177]
XVIII.The End of Spanish Rule[191]
XIX.The Beginning of American Occupation[203]
XX.Civil Government for the Philippines[212]
XXI.Physical Geography of the Archipelago[221]
XXII.The Future[236]