The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55 / 1606-1609 / 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 1606

• [The Dominican mission of 1606.] Diego Aduarte, O.P., and others; 1604–06.
• [The Dutch factory at Tidore.] Joan ———; March 16.
• [The Sangley insurrection of 1603.] Miguel Rodriguez de Maldonado.
• [Letter from the Audiencia to Felipe III.] Telles de Almaçan, and others; July 6.
• [Letter from the fiscal to Felipe III.] Rodrigo Diaz Guiral; July.
• [The Terrenate expedition.] Council of the Indias; August 5 and 15.
• [Decree establishing a way-station for Philippine vessels on the California coast.] Felipe III; August 19.
• [Chinese immigration in the Philippines.] Pedro Muñoz de Herrera, and others; July–November.
• [Letter to Acuña.] Felipe III; November 4.

Sources: All these documents are obtained from foreign archives: the third (a printed pamphlet) from the Real Academia de Historia, Madrid; the sixth, from the Archivo general at Simancas; the seventh, from the British Museum; the last, from the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid; all the rest, from the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla.

Translations. The first, second, fourth, fifth, and eighth of these documents are translated by Henry B. Lathrop, of the University of Wisconsin; the third and seventh, by James A. Robertson; the sixth and ninth, by Norman F. Hall, of Harvard University.