قراءة كتاب The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 34 of 55 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 poli
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 34 of 55 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 poli
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ILLUSTRATIONS
- Pigafetta’s Chart of the Moluccas 72
- Pigafetta’s Chart of the islands of Bachian, etc. 104
- Pigafetta’s Chart of the islands of Amboina, etc. 110
- Pigafetta’s Chart of the Banda Islands 114
- Pigafetta’s Chart of the islands of Zolot, etc. 118
- Pigafetta’s Charts of the island of Timor, and of the Laut Chidol or Great Sea 124
- Photographic facsimile of last page of Pigafetta’s relation showing signature; from the Pigafetta MS. in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy 146
- Map of eastern Asia and the eastern archipelago, showing the Moluccas; drawn by Diego Homem, ca. 1558 (on vellum); photographic facsimile of original manuscript map in the British Museum 150, 151
- “India tercera nova tabula”—map of the Eastern archipelago; from Mattiolo’s edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia (Venetia, M. D. LXVIII); from a copy of this work in possession of Frank A. Hutchins, Madison, Wisconsin facing p. 190
- Signature of Martin Ignacio de Loyola, author of the Itinerario in Mendoza’s Historia de ... China; from MS. in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla facing p. 384
PREFACE
In the present volume, Pigafetta’s narrative (begun in VOL. XXXIII) is concluded; and a description of the islands written by a Chinese geographer Chao Ju-kua, probably in the thirteenth century, and various documents covering the years 1565–1605 are presented. Chao Ju-kua’s description is especially interesting and valuable as it forms the earliest authentic notice of the Philippines previous to their discovery by Magalhães. The remaining documents treat of secular and ecclesiastical affairs in the islands and cover a wide range of interests. Various details of the first settlements at Cebú and Manila, early explorations, and descriptions of the Philippines and their peoples, supplement the information of previous volumes. The royal intentions in regard to the discoveries of Legazpi and Legazpi himself are set forth in a series of documents, and form an interesting chapter from which one may construct the effect caused in Spain by the New Orient opened for the fourth time to that country. The early efforts of the first missionaries, the complications that arise almost from the very start between