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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803
explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands andtheir peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions,as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing thepolitical, economic, commercial and religious conditions of thoseislands from their earliest relations with European nations to thebeginning of the nineteenth century
Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertsonwith historical introduction and additional notes by Edward GaylordBourne.
Contents of Volume II
Preface
Expedition of García de Loaisa—1525-26
[Résumé of contemporaneous documents—1522-37]
Voyage of Alvaro de Saavedra—1527-28.
[Résumé of contemporaneous documents—1527-28]
Expedition of Ruy Lopez de Villalobos
[Résumé of contemporaneous documents—[1541-48]
Expedition of Miguel Lopez de Legazpi—1564-68.
[Résumé of contemporaneous documents—1559-68]
Warrant of the Augustinian authorities in Mexico establishing a branch of their brotherhood in the Philippines—1564
Proclamation ordering the declaration of
the gold taken from the burial-places of the
Indians. M.L. de Legazpi; Çubu, May 16, 1565
Letters to Felipe II of Spain. M.L. de
Legazpi and others; Cubu, May 27 and 29,
and June 1, 1565
Letter from the royal officials of the
Filipinas to the royal Audiencia at Mexico,
accompanied by a memorandum of the necessary
things to be sent to the colony. Guido de
Labecares and others; Cubu, May 28, 1565
Relation of the voyage to the
Philippines. M. L. de Legazpi; Cubu, [1565]
[1]Copia de vna carta venida de Seuilla a
Miguel Saluador de Valencia. (Barcelona,
Pau Cortey, 1566)
Letters to Felipe II of Spain. M.L. de Legazpi;
Cubu, July 12, 15, and 23, 1567 and June
26, 1568
Negotiations between Legazpi and Pereira
regarding the Spanish settlement at
Cebú. Fernando Riquel; 1568-69
Bibliographical Data
Illustrations
Portrait of Miguel Lopez de Legazpi; photographic
reproduction from painting in Museo-Biblioteca de Ultramar,
Madrid. Frontispiece
Portrait of Fray Andrés de Urdaneta; photographic reproduction
from painting by Madrazo, in possession of the Colegio de
Filipinas (Augustinian), Valladolid.
Signatures of Legazpi and other officials in the Philippines;
photographic facsimile from original MS. of their letter of
June 1, 1565, in the Archivo g