CHAPTER IV_The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 48, 1751-1765 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 missions of Ilocos, in especial

[The missionaries who most zealously and successfully labored in this

field were: Fray Joseph Herice, Fray Jacinto Rivera, Fray Nicolàs

Fabro, and Fray Manuel Madariaga. [33] The first-named established

this mission in 1720; he formed a village of his converts, the first

thus established among the Adang tribe, another having been made among

the Apayaos, which was called Vera [i.e., Vira?]. The infidels named

Father Herice "the hunter of souls." He labored among them twenty-two

years, dying in 1742; and three years later Father Rivera followed him,

after gaining considerable extension for this mission.]

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