The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 39 of 55, 1683-1690 / 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

by Unknown

The Editors
May, 1906.

Miscellaneous Documents,

1683–1690

1. [Dampier in the Philippines (concluded).] William Dampier; 1697.
2. [Petition for Dominican missionaries.] Francisco de Villalva; [1687?].
3. [Events in Filipinas, 1686–88.] [Unsigned and undated.]
4. [The Pardo controversy.] Juan Sanchez, and others; 1683–89.
5. [Official visitation by Valdivia.] [Unsigned; 1689–90.]

Sources: The first document is concluded from VOL. XXXVIII, q.v. The second is obtained from a rare pamphlet in the British Museum; the third and fifth, from the Ventura del Arco MSS., iii, pp. 625–638, 727–732; and 589–596, 641–673; the fourth, mainly from the same volume, with additions from Retana’s Archivo, i, no. iv, and Salazar’s Hist. Sant. Rosario, pp. 490–513.

Translations: All save the first document are translated by Emma Helen Blair.

Dampier in the Philippines

(Concluded)