sing
to the last to absolve him, notwithstanding the commands of the
Audiencia. The second letter, written from Nueva Espana (probably
1691), apparently by a Jesuit, relates briefly the proceedings
of Valdivia in the islands. The writer sends a warning to combat
the influences that will be exerted at court to secure the see for
Barrientos; and asserts that Valdivia has appropriated to himself
great wealth (part of which has been seized) obtained from the Manila
proceedings. The governor died in April, 1690.

The Editors May, 1906.

MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS,

1683-1690

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

Sources: The first document is concluded from VOL. XXXVIII, q.v. The
second is obtained from a rare pamphlet in the British Museum; the
third and fifth, from the Ventura del Arco MSS., iii, pp. 625-638,
727-732; and 589-596, 641-673; the fourth, mainly from the same
volume, with additions from Retana's Archivo, i, no. iv, and Salazar's
Hist. Sant. Rosario, pp. 490-513.

Translations: All save the first document are translated by Emma
Helen Blair.

DAMPIER IN THE PHILIPPINES

(CONCLUDED)

CHAP. XII

Of the Inhabitants, and Civil State of the Isle of
Mindanao. The Mindanayans, Hilanoones, Sologues, and
Alfoorees. Of the Mindanayans, properly so called; Their
Manners and Habits. The Habits and Manners of their Women. A
Comical Custom at Mindanao. Their Houses, their Diet, and
Washings. The Languages spoken there, and Transactions with
the Spaniards. Their fear of the Dutch, and seeming desire
of the English. Their Handy-crafts, and peculiar sort of
Smiths Bellows. Their Shipping, Commodities, and Trade. The
Mindanao and Manila Tobacco. A sort of Leprosie there, and
other Distempers. Their Marriages. The Sultan of Mindanao, his
Poverty, Power, Family, &c. The Proes or Boats here. Raja Laut
the General, Brother of the Sultan, and his Family. Their way
of Fighting. Their Religion. Raja Laut's Devotion. A Clock
or Drum in their Mosques. Of their Circumcision, and the
Solemnity then used. Of other their Religious Observations
and Su