The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 / 1620-1621 / 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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[4] See Vol. XII, pp. 53, 54, “four hundred short toneladas of the Northern Sea, which amount to three hundred [of the Southern Sea].”

[5] See this note, post, p. 169.

[6] The report of this expedition, which was effected, will be given later, in a document of 1624.

[7] See a further note to this section, post, p. 171.

[8] See a further note on this section, post, p. 171.

[9] The reservation signifies that absolution from the said censure is reserved exclusively to a superior, as the prior of a convent, a provincial, or general, or even to the supreme pontiff himself. See Addis and Arnold’s Catholic Dict., pp. 135, and 717 and 718.—Rev. T.C. Middleton, O.S.A.

[10] The original reads “despues” (“since”), but the sense seems to require “antes” (“before”).

[11] An account of this expedition will be presented in a later document.

[12] The words lacking in the above, due to the dilapidation of the MS., render it impossible to translate this passage clearly.