The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55, 1620-1621
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- 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
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1. Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne.2. Contents of Volume XIX3. Illustrations4. Preface5. Documents of 16206. Aid against the Dutch requested7. Treatise on the navigation of Filipinas, reduced to four chapters8. Letter from Francisco de Otaço, S.J., to Father Alonso de Escovar9. Decree Ordering Reforms in the Friars’ Treatment of the Indians10. Relation of Events in the Philipinas Islands and Neighboring Provinces and Kingdoms, from July, 1619, to July, 162011. Of Great China12. Of the Kingdoms of Japon13. Of the Islands of Maluco14. Of Eastern India15. Of these Filipinas Islands16. Compulsory Service by the Indians17. Letter from the Audiencia of Manila to Felipe III18. Letter from Fajardo to Felipe III19. Letter from Fajardo to Felipe III (continued 2)20. Letter from Felipe III to Fajardo21. Memorial, y Relacion para sv Magestad22. Memorial and Relation of the Filipinas23. Part First24. Chapter VII. Of the government of Don Juan de Silva, and events with the Dutch.25. Chapter VIII. Of the opposition to Don Juan de Silva from all the city, and the opportunity that he lost by not taking the advice that they gave him.26. Letter of Don Geronimo de Silva, Governor of Maluco27. Chapter IX. Of the coming of the Dutch to Manila in search of Don Juan de Silva.28. Chapter X. Of the result obtained by the coming of the Dutch to the Filpinas Islands and the city of Manila.29. Chapter I. Of the importance to your Majesty of preserving that country.30. Chapter II. Wherein those are answered who believe that the Filipinas should be abandoned, or traded to the crown of Portugal for Brazil.31. Chapter III. How the city of Manila at present bears the burden of all this structure.32. Chapter IV. Explains the error which is generally prevalent that the money for the reënforcements which your Majesty sends to the Filipinas, and other things, is spent for their maintenance; and of the resources which they possess available (if it were not for Maluco) for their own maintenance.33. Chapter V. That your Majesty possesses in the Filipinas enormous wealth, even with the little effort made to realize it.34. Chapter VI. Of the persons who are needed in the government of the Filipinas.35. Chapter VII. Of the measures which should be chosen for the growth and preservation of that kingdom.36. Letter from Master-of-camp Lucas de Vergara, written to Don Francisco Gomez de Arellano, dean of Manila, which is the last that came from Maluco in the past year.37. Chapter I. Of the prelates and their districts in the islands, and of certain curious things.38. Chapter III. Of the islands of Maluco, and others adjacent to them; and of the spice and other articles that are contained in them.39. Chapter IV. Wherein are considered the riches of the spice trade of these Malucas Islands and the others.40. Chapter V. Of the expense incurred by your Majesty to maintain the fortified posts of Tidore and Terrenate in the Malucas Islands.41. Bibliographical Data42. Appendix: Buying and Selling Prices of Oriental Products