Volume 41 — Documents of 1691–1700
Reading edition
Extracts from Jesuit letters. Juan de Zarzuela, and others; 1691 and 1694.
Discovery of Palaos Islands. Paul Clain, S. J.; June 10, 1697.
Recollect missions in the Philippines, 1661–1712. Pedro de San Francisco de Assis; 1756. Juan de la Concepción; 1788.
Sources: The first of these documents is obtained from the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library), iv, pp. 1–3, 69–72; the second, from Lettres édifiantes (1st Paris ed.), i, (1717), pp. 112–136, from a copy in the library of the Wisconsin Historical Society; the third, from the Historia general de los religiosos descalzos de San Agustin, part iv, written by Pedro de San Francisco de Assis (Zaragoza, 1756), from a copy in the Library of Congress.
Translations: The first document is translated by Emma Helen Blair; the second, by Frances B. Marshall; the third, by James Alexander Robertson.