The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 / 1617-1620 / 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 1617–1618

• [Letter to Felipe III]. Andrés de Alcaraz; August 10, 1617.
• [Trade between Nueva España and the Far Eas]t. [Unsigned and undated; ca. 1617].
• [Events in the Filipinas Islands, 1617–1618]. [Unsigned]; June, 1618.
• [Description of the Philippinas Islands]. [Unsigned]; 1618.
• [Dutch factories and posts in the Orient]. [Pedro de Heredia]; [1618?].
• [Memorial regarding Manila hospital]. [Unsigned]; 1618.
• [Letter to Felipe III]. Alonso Fajardo de Tenza; August 10, 1618.
• [Letters to Fajardo]. Felipe III; December 19, 1618.
• [Filipinas menaced by Dutch]. Joan de Ribera, S.J.; December 20, 1618.

Sources: The first, and last four, of these documents are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the remainder, from MSS. in the Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid.

Translations: The first and seventh are translated by James A. Robertson; the second, third, and fourth, by Herbert E. Bolton, Ethel Z. Rather, and Mattie A. Austin, of the University of Texas; the remainder, by Robert W. Haight.