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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 XXXIX, 1683-1690



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






CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXXIX


    Preface                                                       9

    Miscellaneous Documents, 1683-1690

        Dampier in the Philippines (concluded). William
        Dampier; London, 1697                                    21
        Petition for Dominican missionaries. Francisco de
        Villalva; [Madrid, 1687?]                               122
        Events in Filipinas, 1686-88. [Unsigned and undated.]   131
        The Pardo controversy. Juan Sanchez, and others;
        Manila, 1683-89                                         149
        Official visitation by Valdivia. [Unsigned; Manila,
        1689-90.]                                               276

    Bibliographical Data                                        303






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