tor and minister
at Mejico in 1590. He died in the latter town in 1591. _Ibid_., p. 16.
[83] The viceroy of Nueva Espana at this time was Martin Enriquez de
Almansa; he arrived in the City of Mexico November 5, 1568, and held
his office until October, 1580, when he was succeeded by the Conde
de la Coruna.
[84] The Franciscans were in charge of these islands in 1893.--_Coco_.
[85] The "Christian Doctrine" of Cardinal Bellarmino; see _Vol_. XVII,
p. 70, and note.
[86] Only the name of Parian remains today; and of the church not
even the ruins.--_Coco_.
[87] San Agustin (_Conquistas_ p. 381) says that the Augustinian
mission to the Chinese was established in the Tondo convent in 1581,
and placed under the special charge of Fray Diego Munoz. Later a suit
arose between the Augustinians and Dominicans (_Conquistas_, p. 533)
as to the administration of the Chinese at Baybay. It was settled in
1612, on condition of the two orders celebrating alternately Corpus
Christi day.
[88] Ecclesiastes xi, 30.--_Coco_.
[89] See Gonzalez de Mendoza's _Historia de la gran China_ (1586),
for a relation of this journey. Part of it may be found in _Vol_. VI
of this series, pp. 114-125.
[90] This is evidently the _Historia de la gran China_ by Gonzalez
de Mendoza.
[91] In Tagal, _molave_.--_Coco_.
[92] Bulacan in the census preceding 1893 had a population of
13,659.--_Coco_.
Bulletin No. 1 gives Bulacan 11,589 civilized inhabitants.
[93] The Rio Grande of Pampanga.
[94] In 1893, the inhabitants numbered 15,156, with a convent and
church of solid masonry.--_Coco_.
Bulletin No. 1 makes the present civilized population 11,783.
[95] In 1893 Macabebe had 19,801 inhabitants, and a stone church
and convent.--_Coco_.
The civilized population now (see Bulletin No. 1, _ut supra_)
is 14,405.
[96] The population of the province of Pampanga is reported for
five different years as follows: 1818, 106,381; 1840, 152,232;
1850, 156,272; 1870, 203,137 (these four including Tarlac); 1887,
223,902. The estimate of the _U.S. Gazetteer of the Philippine
Islands_, from which these numbers are taken, figures a population
of 223,922 for 1901. Bulletin No. 1 (_ut supra_) reports 223,754 for
1903, of whom 222,656 are civilized, and 1,098 wild.
[97] The attitude of the great Augustinian Philippine writer, San
Agustin, and in general the friars of the last century of the Spanish
regime, toward the native is well shown in the follo
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