The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 / 1624 / 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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Early Recollect Missions in the Philippines

Extracts from the Following Works, Covering the History of the Missions to 1624:

• Historia general de los religiosos descalzos del orden de ... San Avgvstin. Fray Andrés de San Nicolas; Madrid, 1664. (pp. 396–510.)
• Historia general de los religiosos descalzos del orden ... S. Augustin. Fray Lvis de Iesvs; Madrid, 1681. (pp. 1–61.)
• Historia general de Philipinas. Fray Juan de la Concepción; Manila, 1788. (Tomo iv, pp. 189–265; v, pp. 32–100.)

Sources: The first and second of these are obtained from copies belonging to Edward E. Ayer, Chicago; the third, from a copy in the possession of the Editors.

Translations: The matter herein presented is translated and synopsized by James A. Robertson.