The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 / 1636-37 / 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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[28] Apparently referring to some plant of the genus Strychnos, several species of it having the reputation of curing the bites of serpents. Blanco says (Flora, p. 61) that he himself has witnessed several cures by this means.

[29] A dried fruit, resembling a prune, which contains tannin; formerly used in medicine, now mainly in tanning and dyeing. It is the product of various species of Terminalia.

[30] The manuscript is mutilated at this point, and contains only the first part of this name, “Vera.”

[31] The manuscript reads “29.”

[32] Apparently an error for “November;” see vol. xvii, p. 252.

[33] Cf. Heredia’s list (1618?) of Dutch factories and posts, vol. xviii, pp. 107–110; and Los Rios’s mention of them, vol. xix, pp. 288–290.

[34] Tacomma, where the Dutch erected Fort Willemstadt.

[35] This word is omitted in the manuscript.

[36] The capital of the island of Gilolo bears the same name. Batochina is properly a part of the island (Doc. inéd. Amér. y Oceanía, vi, p. 400, note 1).

[37] The island of Amboina was discovered about 1515 by the Portuguese, and taken by the Dutch February 23, 1603. See Doc. inéd. Amér. y Oceanía, vi, p. 400, note 2.