Note_The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 50 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

The escorts which are furnished to the ministers are, at most,

proper in the first years of a mission; but ordinarily this is a

useless expense, by which the religious orders profit--or rather their

missionaries, who take no other escorts than their own servants; nor

do they need escorts, especially in the well-peopled missions. Most of

these are such, because many Indians from the villages take refuge

in the missions, either fleeing from justice, or for not paying

the tribute. Thus could be saved the cost of the said escorts; and

even the stipend for every mission after twenty-five years from its

establishment, by causing the people to be brought into villages.

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