The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 / 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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[Then follow the poems and eulogies above mentioned, which are written partly in Latin and partly in Spanish.]

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[1] Evidently a reference to the “Relation” of Father Fayol, q.v., Vol. XXXV, pp. 212–275.

[2] This was the mother of the dead prince Baltasar Cárlos—Isabel (or Elizabeth) of France, daughter of Henri IV; she died October 6, 1644.

[3] i.e., “The crown of our head has fallen.”

[4] Spanish, una media naranja, literally, “a half orange.”

[5] The original verses are given for this and following stanzas, because of the plays on words which cannot be perfectly rendered in English.

[6] Codal: A short thick wax candle, one cubit in length.

[7] Upon the occasion of the death of the late pope Leo XIII, a rich catafalque was erected in the great cathedral of Sevilla, between the choir and the high altar, and services were conducted somewhat in the same manner as here described.