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Title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898
Volume IX, 1593-1597

Author: E. H. Blair

Release Date: December 6, 2004 [EBook #14265]

Language: English

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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 IX, 1593-1597

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

Contents of Volume IX

Preface 9
Documents of 1593

The second embassy to Japan. G. P. Dasmarinas, and others;
April-May. ... 23
Two letters to Felipe II. G. P. Dasmarinas; Manila,
June 20. ... 58
Memorandum of troops required in the Philippines. [Unsigned
and undated; 1593?]. ... 74
Letter to the king of Camboja. G. P. Dasmarinas; Manila,
September 27. ... 76

Documents of 1594

List of Philippine villages reduced by the
Spaniards. [Unsigned and undated; 1594?]. ... 81
Letter to king of Canboja. Luis Perez Dasmarinas; Manila,
February 8. ... 86
Investigation of the hospital. Hernando de los Rios,
and others; Manila, February-April. ... 88
Report concerning the Filipinas Islands, and other
papers. Francisco de Ortega, O.S.A.; [1594]. ... 95
Decree for despatch of missionaries. Felipe II; Aranjuez,
April 27. ... 120
Reply to the Japanese emperor's letter. L.P. Dasmarinas,
and others; Manila, April 22--