The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55, 1690-1691 / 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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Bibliographical Data

The documents contained in this volume are obtained from the following sources:

1. [Events at Manila], 1690–91.—From the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library), iv, pp. 53–67.

2. [Native races and customs.]—From Colin’s Labor evangélica, book i, chap. iv, xiii–xvi; from a copy of original edition (1663) in possession of Edward E. Ayer, Chicago.

3. [Natives of the southern islands.]—From Combes’s Historia de Mindanao, Ioló, etc. (Retana and Pastells’s reprint), chap. ix–xviii.

4. [San Agustín’s Letter.]—From an early MS. copy in possession of Edward E. Ayer.

5. [Native peoples and their customs.]—From San Antonio’s Crónicas, i, pp. 129–172; from a copy in possession of Edward E. Ayer.