The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 51, 1801-1840 / 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 1801–1840

• [Events in Filipinas, 1801–1840]. [Compiled from Montero y Vidal.]
• [Remarks on the Phillippine Islands, 1819–22]. “An Englishman;” 1828.
• [Reforms needed in Filipinas]. Manuel Bernaldez Pizarro; April 26, 1827.

Sources: The first document is compiled from Montero y Vidal’s Historia de Filipinas (tomo ii, pp. 360–573; iii, pp. 6–32); the second is reprinted from the original publication, a copy of which is in possession of Edward E. Ayer; the third is presented, partly in synopsis, from original MSS. in the Ayer collection.

Translations: The first and third are made by Emma Helen Blair.