The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 52, 1841-1898 / 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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VOLUME XIV

P. 37, middle: Add to list of signatures “The licentiate Andres de Alcaraz.”

P. 143, middle: The ordinary naval ration furnished on the royal ships which plied between Manila and Acapulco was prescribed as follows in Arandía’s Ordenanzas de Marina (Manila, 1757), p. 61: “On days when meat is eaten—Biscuit, 18 onzas; jerked beef, 6 onzas; fried pork, 3 onzas; salt, ½ onza; vinegar, for ten persons, ¼ onza; firewood, 2 libras. On days when fish is prescribed—Biscuit, 18 onzas; pottage or soup of vegetables [miniestras], 3 onzas; pork fat [manteca], 1 onza; salt fish, 6 onzas; salt, vinegar, and firewood, as on the other days. For each ration, four quartillos [about 2 1–6 quarts] are reckoned—one for cooking the ration, and three for drinking.”

P. 197, line 3: For “Biebengud” read “Bienbengud.”

P. 209, break in middle: To this place transfer the endorsement at end of p. 213.

P. 280, line 4 from end: For “July 29” read “July 25.” The same correction should be made on p. 6, line 8 from end; p. 241, line 7.