behavior,
in which he goes so far as to say, and let it be understood, that he
alone can do these things, and must command everything. Your Majesty
will decree the remedy which is expedient and so necessary. May our
Lord protect the Catholic person of your Majesty with the happiness
needful for Christendom. Manila, July 15, 1605.

_Don Pedro de Acuna_

DOCUMENTS OF 1606

The Dominican mission of 1606. Diego Aduarte, O.P., and others;
1604-06.
The Dutch factory at Tidore. Joan ----; March 16.
The Sangley insurrection of 1603. Miguel Rodriguez de Maldonado.
Letter from the Audiencia to Felipe III. Telles de Almacan,
and others; July 6.
Letter from the fiscal to Felipe III. Rodrigo Diaz Guiral; July.
The Terrenate expedition. Council of the Indias; August 5 and 15.
Decree establishing a way-station for Philippine vessels on the
California coast. Felipe III; August 19.
Chinese immigration in the Philippines. Pedro Munoz de Herrera,
and others; July-November.
Letter to Acuna. Felipe III; November 4.

_Sources_: All these documents are obtained from foreign archives:
the third (a printed pamphlet) from the Real Academia de Historia,
Madrid; the sixth, from the Archivo general at Simancas; the seventh,
from the British Museum; the last, from the Archivo Historico Nacional,
Madrid; all the rest, from the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla.

_Translations_. The first, second, fourth, fifth, and eighth of these
documents are translated by Henry B. Lathrop, of the University of
Wisconsin; the third and seventh, by James A. Robertson; the sixth
and ninth, by Norman F. Hall, of Harvard University.

The Dominican Mission of 1606

I, Fray Diego Duarte, [8] of the Order of St. Dominic, affirm that
his Majesty by his royal decree, which I present herewith, commanded
that in addition to the thirty religious and four servants whom in
accordance with his said royal decree I received permission to convey
to the Feliphinas Islands, I should conduct ten other religious,
making forty in all; and that for the despatch of all of them your
Lordship should give me what was necessary at the expense of his
royal treasury. This allowance is to be in conformity with the report
mentioned in the said decree (which your Lordship has sent to the
royal Council of the Yndias), which states the cost of the passage
to the Yndias of each religious. Since the time is now far adva