Explorations by early navigators, descriptions ofthe islands and their peoples, their history and records of thecatholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts,showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions ofthose islands from their earliest relations with European nations tothe close of the nineteenth century,
Volume XLI, 1691–1700
Edited and annotated by EmmaHelen Blair and James AlexanderRobertson with historical introduction and additional notes byEdward Gaylord Bourne.
Title-page of vol. vi of Lettres édifiantes(Paris, 1723); photographic facsimile of copy in library of WisconsinHistorical Society 41
Map of New Philippines or Palaos Islands, 1710 (?); photographicfacsimile of original map in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla 45
Map of Palaos Islands, discovered by Joseph Somera, 1710; fromoriginal manuscript map in Biblioteca de Vittorio Emanuele, Rome 53
Map of Magendanao (Mindanao); drawn by Fakynolano, elder brother ofthe sultan of that place, ca., 1700; photographic facsimile oforiginal manuscript map in the British Museum 280, 281
The main part of this volume is a record of the Recollect missionsin the Philippines from 1661 to 1712; these are conducted mainly inwestern Luzón, Mindanao, and Calamianes, and Assis’saccount contains much information of interest regarding conditions inthose regions. “Moro raids in the seventeenth century”summarizes the principal events connected with that topic; and theJesuit Clain presents an interesting account of the discovery that the