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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 XXIX, 1638-40



 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
                                  MCMV







CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXIX


    Preface                                                            9

    Documents of 1638

        Events in the Filipinas, 1637-38. [Unsigned; probably
        written by Juan Lopez, S.J., at Cavite, in July, 1638.]       23

        Letter to Felipe IV. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera;
        Manila, August 21.                                            50

        Letter to Felipe IV, from the treasurer at
        Manila. Baltasar Ruiz de Escalona; Manila, August 31.         52

        Relation of the Filipinas Islands. Hieronimo
        de Banuelos y Carrillo; Mexico, 1638.                         66

        Glorious victories against the Moros of Mindanao. Diego
        de Bobadilla, S.J., and others; Mexico, 1638.                 86

        Royal orders and decrees, 1638. Felipe IV; Madrid, March
        15, and September-December.                                  102

        Fortunate successes in Filipinas and Terrenate,
        1636-37. [Unsigned; published in Madrid, 1639.]              116

        Value of Corcuera's seizures in Jolo. [Unsigned and
        undated; probably 1638.]                                     135

    Documents of 1639-1640

        Events in the Philipinas from the year 1638 to that of
        1639. [Unsigned; probably Juan Lopez, at Cavite, 1639.]      141

        Letters to the Holy Misericordia. Sebastian Hurtado de
        Corcuera; Manila, December 4, 1637, and October 26, 1639.    172

        The university of Santo Tomas. Felipe IV; Madrid,
        November 9, 1639.                                            175

        Royal orders and decrees. Felipe IV; Madrid, 1639.           178

        Events in the Filipinas Islands from August, 1639,
        to August, 1640. [Juan Lopez?]; Cavite, August, 1640.        194

        Relation of the insurrection of the Chinese. [Unsigned
        and undated; probably in March, 1640.]                       208

        Ecclesiastical and Augustinian affairs, 1630-40. Casimiro
        Diaz; Manila [1718?]. [From his Conquistas.]                 259

        Relation of the Filipinas Islands. [Diego de Bobadilla,
        S.J.; 1640.]                                                 277

    Bibliographical Data.                                            313







ILLUSTRATIONS


    View of city of Manila; photographic facsimile of engraving in
    Mallet's Description de l'univers (Paris, 1683), ii, p. 127;
    from copy in the Library of Congress.                             67

    View of one of Ladrones Islands; photographic facsimile of
    engraving in Hulsius's Eigentliche und wahrhaftige Beschreibung
    (Franckfurt am Mayne, M.DC.XX), p. 66; from copy in library of
    Harvard University.                                              169

    Portus Acapulco (view of harbor of Acapulco, Mexico);
    photographic facsimile of engraving in Arnoldus Montanus's
    Nieuwe en onbekende Weereld (Amsterdam, 1671), p. 246; from
    copy in library of Harvard University.                           188

    Archipelagus orientalis, sive Asiaticus (Eastern or Asiatic
    archipelago); photographic