The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 44, 1700-1736 / 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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[26] Millones: “an excise or duty levied in Spain on wine, vinegar, oil, meat, soap, and tallow candles, to defray the expenses of the army” (Velázquez). [↑]

[27] These dimensions are equivalent in English or U.S. measure to 41¾ inches long, 22¼ wide, and 11⅛ deep; and the allowance of two dedos, to 1⅓ inch. [↑]

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATA

The documents contained in this volume are obtained from the following sources:

1. Jesuit missions.—From Murillo Velarde’s Historia de Philipinas (Manila, 1749); from a copy in possession of Edward E. Ayer.

2. Condition of the islands, 1701.—From Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library), v, pp. 201–230.

3. Events of 1701–15.—From Concepción’s Historia de Philipinas, viii, pp. 299–391; from a copy in possession of the Editors.

4. Government of Bustamante.—The first part is from Concepción, ut supra, ix, pp. 183–424; the letters of Otazo and Cuesta are from Ventura del Arco MSS., iv, pp. 249–295.

5. Letter from Santistevan.—From a MS., probably the original, in possession of Edward E. Ayer.