The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803

The Philippine Islands,
1493-1803

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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803
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 beginning of the

nineteenth century
Volume II, 1521-1569

Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander
Robertson with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward
Gaylord Bourne.

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
Act of taking possession of Cibabao, Fernando Riquel; Cibabao,
February 15, 1565
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 general de Indias, Seville.
The Santo Niño of Cebú (image of the child Jesus found there by
Legazpi's soldiers in 1565); from a plate in possession of the Colegio
de Filipinas, Valladolid.

Preface
The next attempt to reach the Spice Islands is made by García Jofre de
Loaisa. A synopsis of contemporary documents is here presented:
discussion as to the location of the India House of Trade; concessions
offered by the Spanish government to persons who aid in equipping
expeditions for the Moluccas; instructions to Loaisa and his
subordinates for the conduct of their enterprise; accounts of their
voyage, etc. Loaisa's fleet departs from Spain on July 24, 1525, and ten
months later emerges from the Strait of Magellan. Three of his ships
have been lost, and a fourth is compelled to seek necessary supplies at
the nearest Spanish settlements on the west coast of South America;
Loaisa has remaining but three vessels for the long and perilous trip
across the Pacific. One of the lost ships finally succeeds in reaching
Spain, but its captain, Rodrigo de Acuña, is detained in long and
painful captivity at Pernambuco. The partial log of the flagship and an
account of the disasters which befell the expedition are sent to the
emperor (apparently from Tidore) by Hernando de la Torre, one of its
few survivors, who asks that aid be sent them. Loaisa himself and
nearly all his officers are dead--one of the captains being killed by his
own men. At Tidore meet (June 30, 1528) the few Spaniards remaining
alive (in all, twenty-five out of one hundred and forty-six) in the
"Victoria" and in the ship of Saavedra, who has been sent by Cortés to

search for the missing fleets which had set out from Spain for the
Moluccas. Urdaneta's relation of the Loaisa expedition goes over the
same ground, but adds many interesting details.
Various documents (in synopsis) show the purpose for which Saavedra
is despatched from Mexico, the instructions given to him, and