The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898

The Philippine Islands,
1493-1898

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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,

Volume XI, 1599-1602

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

Contents of Volume XI

Preface 9 Documents of 1599
Ordinances enacted by the Audiencia of Manila (_concluded_).
Francisco Tello, and others; Manila, June, 1598-July, 1599 21 The
hospital for Indians at Manila. Domingo de Santiago and Antonio
Valerio; Manila, July 3 82 Letters from the royal fiscal to the king.
Hieronimo de Salazar y Salcedo; Manila, July 21 86 Letter from the
king of Borneo to Governor Tello. Soltan Adil Sula; [June?] translated
July 27 120 Letters to the king. Francisco Tello; Manila, July 14 and
August 7 123 Letters to Tello. Felipe III; Denia, August 16 129
Documents of 1600
The pacification of Mindanao. [Unsigned and undated; 1600?] 135
Oliver van Noordt's attack on Luzón. Francisco Tello, and others;
Manila, October-December 140
Documents of 1601
Report to the governor, on the battle with the Dutch. Antonio de Morga;
Manila, January 5. 173 Annual letters from the Philippine Islands.
Francisco Vaez, S.J.; [Manila?], June 10. 191 Letter to Felipe III. Diego
Garcia, S.J.; Manila, July 8. 223 Letter from the fiscal to Felipe III.
Hieronimo de Salazar y Salcedo; Manila, July 16. 228 Complaint of the
cabildo of Manila against Morga. Gonzalo Ronquillo de Vallesteros,
and others; Manila, July 20. 235 Letter to Felipe III. Antonio de Morga;
Manila, July 30. 251 Grant to Jesuit school in Cebú. Council of Indias;
Valladolid, December 11. 257
Documents of 1602
Instructions to Pedro de Acuña. Felipe III; Zamora, February 16. 263
Two royal decrees. Felipe III; Zamora, February 16. 289 Pintados
menaced by Mindanao pirates. Juan Juarez Gallinato, and others; off
Mindanao, May 29-June 4. 292 Letters to Felipe III. L. P. Dasmariñas,
and others; Manila, June 8-July 10. 302

Bibliographical Data. 317

Illustrations

Title-page of De rebus Iaponicis, compiled by John Hay, S J.
(Antverpiæ, M. DC. V); photographic facsimile, from copy in Library
of Congress. 187 Title-page of Relatione breve, by Diego de Torres
(Milano, MDCIII); photographic facsimile, from copy in library of
Harvard University. 189

Preface
During the three years or more covered in this volume (1599-1602), the
most notable occurrence is the coming to the archipelago (in 1600) of
the fleet commanded by the Dutch adventurer Oliver van Noordt, bent
on plunder and the damage of the Spanish settlements there: but he is
defeated and driven away, although with heavy loss to the Spaniards.
This event, with the quarrels which it arouses in Manila, and fears of
like danger in the future, disturb the colony for several years. The
people, both Spaniards and Indians, are also in constant dread of the
Moro pirates, who ravage the coasts of the Pintados (Visayas) Islands,
encouraged to commit these depredations by the late withdrawal of
Spanish troops from Mindanao. In the face of all these difficulties, the
government is also embarrassed by the poverty of the local treasury; its
funds are wasted by unnecessary expenses and salaries, and lessened by
frauds in the customs duties, and by other violations of the laws
regarding trade. There are too many officials, both secular and religious;
and the former are often incompetent or corrupt. The Indians are
demoralized by having learned the use of the white men's money; their
native industries are neglected, which causes scarcity and high prices of
goods and supplies. New impulse and wider scope are given to the
missions conducted by the Jesuits, who begin the task of gathering the
scattered Indian converts into mission villages, thus more easily to
civilize and christianize the natives. A new governor for the islands is
appointed, Pedro de Acuña.
In this volume is completed the document begun in Vol. X,
"Ordinances of the Audiencia enacted in 1598-99;" here are presented
those for the