The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55 / 1629-30 / 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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[78] Ecclesiastes xi, 30.—Coco.

[79] See Gonzalez de Mendoza’s Historia de la gran China (1586), for a relation of this journey. Part of it may be found in Vol. VI of this series, pp. 114–125.

[80] This is evidently the Historia de la gran China by Gonzalez de Mendoza.

[81] In Tagál, molave.—Coco.

[82] Bulacán in the census preceding 1893 had a population of 13,659.—Coco.

Bulletin No. 1 gives Bulacán 11,589 civilized inhabitants.

[83] The Rio Grande of Pampanga.

[84] In 1893, the inhabitants numbered 15,156, with a convent and church of solid masonry.—Coco.

Bulletin No. 1 makes the present civilized population 11,783.

[85] In 1893 Macabebe had 19,801 inhabitants, and a stone church and convent.—Coco.