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 XXVII

P. 5, line 4: For “Cavite” read “Manila.”

P. 122, middle: The peso ensayado was, according to Lea (Hist. of Inquisition in Spain, i, p. 562), a colonial coin, worth 400 maravedís, equivalent to 11¾ reals, or a little more than a ducado.

P. 146: “The fundamental idea of the commercial and industrial policy of Spain, as carried out through the India House, was that of restriction and privilege.” (Moses, Spanish Rule in America, p. 265.) See Roscher’s comments thereon in his Spanish Colonial System (Bourne’s ed.), p. 35.

P. 256, middle: This mention of the Salve refers to the Ave Maria, not to the Salve Regina (“Hail, holy Queen!”).—Rev. T. C. Middleton, O.S.A.

P. 339, middle: The “Moro-Moro play” was a feature of town fiestas, both religious and secular functions, for several centuries, and is still common in the more remote towns, though the modern sophisticated Filipinos have been trying to laugh it out of court, and have done so in the more cultured regions. I saw it at Kotabato in 1901, where the handful of Christians in the population played it before the Commission and a host of gathered Moro tribesmen from up the river.—James A. LeRoy (in a private letter).