The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 / 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 1691–1700

1. [Extracts from Jesuit letters]. Juan de Zarzuela, and others; 1691 and 1694.
2. [Discovery of Palaos Islands]. Paul Clain, S. J.; June 10, 1697.
3. [Recollect missions in the Philippines, 1661–1712]. Pedro de San Francisco de Assis; 1756. Juan de la Concepción; 1788.

Sources: The first of these documents is obtained from the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library), iv, pp. 1–3, 69–72; the second, from Lettres édifiantes (1st Paris ed.), i, (1717), pp. 112–136, from a copy in the library of the Wisconsin Historical Society; the third, from the Historia general de los religiosos descalzos de San Agustin, part iv, written by Pedro de San Francisco de Assis (Zaragoza, 1756), from a copy in the Library of Congress.

Translations: The first document is translated by Emma Helen Blair; the second, by Frances B. Marshall; the third, by James Alexander Robertson.