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By Antonio de Morga

ISBN-10: 0511707800

ISBN-13: 9780511707803

ISBN-10: 1108010733

ISBN-13: 9781108010733

The courses of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made on hand edited (and occasionally translated) early bills of exploration. the 1st sequence, which ran from 1847 to 1899, contains a hundred books containing released or formerly unpublished works by way of authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and protecting voyages to the hot international, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This 1868 quantity is the 1st ebook in English of a ebook initially released in Mexico in 1609, which describes the Spanish 'discovery, conquest and conversion' of the Philippines within the 16th century, and the management of this a part of the Spanish empire. The introductory essay situates the booklet within the context of the historiography of the Spanish empire, and identifies parallels for the colonial event, and particularly for the remedy of indigenous peoples, within the concerns confronting the mid-nineteenth-century British empire.

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One of the ships which sailed from the port of Navidad in company with the fleet, under the command of Don Alonso de Arellano, carried as pilot one Lope Martin, a mulatto and OF THE EASTERN ISLES. 1i a good sailor, although a restless man; when this ship came near the islands it left the fleet and went forward amongst the islands, and having procured some provisions, without waiting for the chief of the expedition, turned back to New Spain by a northerly course : either from the little inclination which he had for making the voyage to the isles, or to gain the reward for having discovered the course for returning.

CHAPTER III. Of the Government of Don Gonzalo Ronquillo de Pefialosa; and of Diego Ronquillo, who, on account of his death, filled the office. Prom the copious information which reached the court of his Majesty concerning the affairs of the Philippines, and of the great need which they experienced of being supplied with settlers and people to occupy them, for the better ordering of this, and at the least cost to the royal exchequer, 24 01? THE GOVERNMENT OF an arrangement was made with Don Gronzalo Eonquillo de Penalosa, a native of Arevalo, and alguazil-mayor of the high court of Mexico, who was at that time at the court, that he should have the government of the Philippines for life, and should take with him six hundred men from the kingdoms of Castile, married and single, to the Philippine Islands; his Majesty, at the same time, would grant him some assistance and facilities for this, and other favours, as a reward for this service.

1 Since the above was written I have fcrand the following confirmation of what I have said of the salutary influence of the monks :— XX TRANSLATORS PREFACE. worthy of remark, now that warlike expenditure so much exceeds what is allotted to instruction, that, of the capitation tax paid by the natives, two reals of " The most efficient agents of public order throughout the islands are the local clergy, many of whom are also of the country. There are considerable parts of these possessions in which the original races, as at Ceylon, retain their independence, and are neither taxed nor interfered with: and throughout the islands the power of the government is founded much more on moral than on physical influence.

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