The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 43, 1670-1700 / 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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Bibliographical Data

The documents contained in the present volume are from the following sources:

1. Dominican missions, 1670–1700.—From Salazar’s Historia de el Santissimo Rosario; (from a copy of original edition (Manila, 1742), in possession of Edward E. Ayer, Chicago).

2. Preliminary note.—Editorial.

3. Superstitions and beliefs of the Filipinos.—From Ortiz’s Práctica del Ministerio, ca., 1731, chapter i, §4, pp. 11–15 (from Retana’s edition of Zúñiga’s Estadismo, Madrid, 1893, ii, pp. ^*14–^*21).

4. The People of the Philippines.—From Zúñiga’s Historia de las Islas Philipinas (Sampaloc, 1803), ii, chapter ii, pp. 19–38; from a copy of the original edition belonging to Edward E. Ayer, Chicago.

5. Jolo and the Sulus.—From Wilkes’s Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition (Philadelphia, 1844), v, pp. 343–390; from a copy belonging to the Wisconsin Historical Society.

6. Letter from Father Quirico More.—From Cartas de los PP. de la Compañía de Jesús (Manila, 1887), vii, pp. 76–91; from a copy belonging to Edward E. Ayer, Chicago.

7. Letter from Father Pedro Rosell.—Ut supra, pp. 198–216.

8. Letters from Father Mateo Gisbert.—Ut supra, pp. 117–128, 137–145.