Note 5 — V. Introduction of Printing into the Philippines.

A point made by Retana with reference to Bataan, place of imprint on the title thereof, is to this effect that instead of Bataan, name (he says) of a province, and in olden time of a very unimportant pueblo (known, however, more correctly as “Batan”),5 one should read Abucay, capital of the province of Bataan, a far likelier place for the establishment of a printing-office.6