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Title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898
Volume X, 1597-1599

Author: E. H. Blair

Release Date: December 6, 2004 [EBook #14266]

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 X, 1597-1599

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

Contents of Volume X

Preface ... 9
Documents of 1597

Letter to Felipe II. Antonio de Morga; Manila, June
30 ... 25
Administration of the hospital at Manila. L.P. Dasmarinas;
Manila, July 20 ... 28
Letters to Felipe II. Francisco Tello; Manila, April
29-August 12 ... 41

Documents of 1598

Letter to Antonio de Morga. Juan de Ronquillo; Tanpaca,
January 4 ... 53
Report, of conditions in the Philippines. Antonio de Morga;
Manila, June 8 ... 75
Recommendations as to reforms needed in the islands.
[Unsigned and undated; 1598?] ... 103
Reception of the royal seal at Manila. Francisco Tello,
and others; Manila, June 8 ... 132
Letters from the archbishop of Manila to Felipe II. Ygnacio
de Santibanez; Manila, June 24 and 26 ... 141
Letters from the bishop of Nueva Segovia to Felipe
II. Miguel de Benavides; Manila, June 30 and July 5
... 161
Letters to Felipe II. Francisco Tello; Manila, June