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                   The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898

   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,

                        Volume XXXVII, 1669-1676



 Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson
  with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord
                                Bourne.


                      The Arthur H. Clark Company
                            Cleveland, Ohio
                                 MCMVI







CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXXVII


    Preface                                                           9

    Miscellaneous Documents, 1669-1676

        Events in Filipinas, 1668. [Unsigned; Francisco
        de Figueroa?]; Manila, January 15, 1669                      23
        The Dominicans in the Philippines, 1641-69. Baltasar
        de Santa Cruz, O.P.; 1676. [From his Historia.]              64
        The Augustinians in the Philippines, 1641-70. Casimiro
        Diaz, O.S.A.; Manila, 1718. [From his Conquistas.]          149
        Manila and the Philippines about 1650 (to be concluded).
        Domingo Fernandez Navarrete, O.P.; Madrid, 1676. [From
        his Tratados historicos.]                                   285

    Bibliographical Data                                            307







ILLUSTRATIONS


    Map of the Philippine Islands, showing province of the
    Order of the