The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 03 of 55 / 1569-1576 / 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, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

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Documents of 1571–72.

• [Relation of the discoveries of the Malucos and Philippinas]. [1571?]
• [Requisitions of supplies for the Spanish forces in the Philippines]. [1571?]
• [Conquest of the island of Luzón]. April 20, 1572.
• [Foundation of the city of Manila]. Fernando Riquel; June 19, 1572.

Sources: MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias at Sevilla. The third is obtained from Retana's Archivo del Bibliófilo filipino, iv (Madrid, 1898).

Translations: The first two documents are translated by Alfonso de Salvio; the third, by J. G. Gill; the fourth, by James A. Robertson. Page 100