BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATA_The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 34 of 55, 1519-1522; 1280-1605 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 documents of the present volume come from various places as

follows:

1. Primo viaggio intorno al mondo, by Antonio Pigafetta.—See

Bibliographical Data, in VOL. XXXIII.

2. Description of the Philippines by Chao Ju-kua.—This is

retranslated into English from the Spanish translation by F.

Blumentritt of the fortieth chapter of Chao Ju-kua’s Chu-fan-chih,

which was translated from the Chinese by F. Hirth. Our translation is

made from the version published by Clemente J. Zulueta, in Periódico

Hebdomario Escolar (a students’ paper of Manila), for November 9,

1901, as the English version was not available.

The following documents are from the Archivo general de Indias,

Sevilla:

3. Letter from Lavezaris.—Simancas—Secular; Audiencia de Filipinas;

cartas y expedientes vistos en el consejo; años de 1565 á 1594; est.

67, caj. 6, leg. 34.

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