ADVERTISEMENT_The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 51, 1801-1840 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 following remarks are drawn up by one but little accustomed

to writing, and offered with much diffidence. In them the Spanish

character will be found perhaps severely treated; but it is necessary

to remark, that not only these observations are, from their very

nature, general; but farther, that they have no reference to the

genuine or European Spanish character--a character of which the writer

has but little knowledge, and one as essentially different from that

which falls under consideration in the following pages, as the society

of all convict colonies is from that of the mother country. [34]

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 51, 1801-1840 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 14 / 64 题