Author: Emma Helen Blair

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Published: 2016-07-04

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9781333024901

Excerpt from The Philippine Islands 1493 1898, Vol. 30: 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; 1640 This memorial by Grau is followed by several royal decrees (dated February 1640) addressed to Palafox; these are mainly informatory, and lay be fore that o icial the representations made by the citi zens of the islands regarding their distressed condition ordering him to investigate the affairs of Philipinas carefully and thoroughly, and report thereon to the home government. In later volumes of this series will be presented a considerable part of the Extracto historial a work which, as we understand, has not before been Englished on account of the importance attached not only to the book as an official report, but to the commerce of the Philippines as a factor in the history and development of that Spanish colony in the Far East. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."