DOCUMENTS OF 1700-1730_The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 44, 1700-1736 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.

Jesuit missions in the seventeenth century. Pedro Murillo

Velarde; 1749.

Condition of the islands, 1701. José Vila, O.P., and others;

October 7, 1701.

Events of 1701-15. [Summarized from Concepción's Historia

de Philipinas.]

The government and death of Bustamante. Diego de Otazo, S.J.,

and others; 1719-20.

Letter by a Spanish officer. Manuel de Santistevan; January

28, 1730.

Sources: The first of these documents is compiled from Murillo

Velarde's Historia de Philipinas (Manila, 1749), using such parts as

directly relate to the missionary labors of the Jesuit order in the

islands; from a copy of the original in possession of Edward E. Ayer,

Chicago. The second is found in the Ventura del Arco MSS., (Ayer

library), v, pp. 201-230; and, in the fourth, Otazo's and Cuesta's

letters are found in iv, pp. 249-295. The third is summarized from

Concepción's Historia de Philipinas, viii, pp. 299-391; part of the

fourth is from ix, pp. 183-424; and the rest is obtained as stated

above. The fifth is translated from a MS. probably the original,

in possession of Edward E. Ayer.

Translations: These are all made by Emma Helen Blair.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 44, 1700-1736 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. · 第 9 / 33 题