II_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.

That if the prohibition of the stuffs and other commodities from China

remains, their former control of the trade therein will be disturbed,

and the royal decrees issued for this purpose (some of which are

compiled [83]) will be subverted--such as those which command that the

commodities which they convey shall be bought from the Sangleys; and

that if this [Chinese] commerce is prohibited that of Nueva España

becomes unprofitable, as the bulky commodities do not fill up the

amount of the permitted trade, and it will not be possible to pay

the cost of traffic in them without those from China.

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