The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 09 of 55 / 1593-1597 / 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 Close of the Nineteenth Century

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Documents of 1594

• [List of Philippine villages reduced by the Spaniards]. [1594?]
• [Letter to king of Canboja]. Luis Perez Dasmariñas; February 8.
• [Investigation of the hospital]. Hernando de los Rios, and others; February-April.
• [Report concerning the Filipinas Islands, and other papers]. Francisco de Ortega.
• [Decree for despatch of missionaries]. Felipe II; April 27.
• [Reply to the Japanese emperor's letter]. L.P. Dasmariñas, and others; April 22—28.
• [Three letters to Felipe II]. L.P. Dasmariñas; June 15—23.

Sources: The royal decree of April 27 is taken from Santa Inés's Crónica, ii, p. 607; the remaining documents are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla.

Translations: The sixth document is translated by Consuelo A. Davidson; the first two letters in the seventh, by José M. and Clara M. Asensio, and Arthur B. Myrick, respectively; all the remaining matter, by James A. Robertson. Page 73