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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898
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,
Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson
with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord
Bourne.
Preface
Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (concluded). Antonio de Morga;
Mexico, 1609.
Conqvista de las Islas Malvcas. Bartolomé Leonardo de
Argensola; Madrid, 1609.
Bibliographical Data
Appendix: Customs of the Pampangas in their lawsuits. Juan
de Plasencia, O.S.F.; [1589?]
Title-page of Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (Mexici ad
Indos, 1609), another edition of Morga's work; photographic
reproduction of the facsimile presented in Zaragoza's edition
(Madrid, 1887); from copy in possession of Edward E. Ayer,
Chicago, which is supposed to be the only copy extant of
Zaragoza's edition.
View of corcoa (the vessel known as "caracoa"); photographic
facsimile of engraving in John Stevens's Collection of Voyages
and Travels (London, 1711), i.—in Argensola's "Discovery
and conquest of the Molucco and Philippine Islands," p. 61;
from copy in library of Wisconsin Historical Society.
Autograph signature of Antonio de Morga; photographic facsimile
from MS. in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla.
Title-page of Conqvista de las Islas Malvcas, by Bartolome
Leonardo de Argensola (Madrid, 1609); photographic facsimile,
from copy in library of Harvard University.
In the present volume is concluded the notable work by Morga, Sucesosde las Islas Filipinas, which was begun in Vol. XV. The reader isreferred to the preface of that volume for some account of the book,and of the manner in which it is presented in this series. Anotherbook notable in the history of the Philippines is that of Argensola,Conqvista de las Islas Molvcas (Madrid, 1609). In presentinghere this work, the Editors follow the plan which proves to bemore or less necessary with many of the printed early histories ofthe islands—that of translating in full only such parts of thebook as relate directly to the Philippines, and are of especialvalue or importance; and furnishing a brief synopsis of all matteromitted, in order that the reader may survey the book as a whole,and understand the relations and connections of the parts thatare presented in full with those that are synopsized. This methodis rendered necessary by the limitations of this series in regardto space, especially as most of the old histories—as Aduarte's,San Agustin's, and La Concepción's—are exceedingly voluminous;and, moreover, devote much space to the affairs of Japan, China,and other countries outside the Philippines. All matter of