The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 44, 1700-1736 / 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.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XLIV

Preface 11
Documents of 1700–1730
- Jesuit missions in the seventeenth century. Pedro Murillo Velarde; Manila, 1749 27
- Condition of the islands, 1701. JosÉ Vila, O.P., and others; Manila, October 7, 1701 120
- Events of 1701–1715. [Summarized from ConcepciÓn’s Historia de Philipinas.] 142
- The government and death of Bustamante. Diego de Otazo, S.J., and others; Manila, 1719–20 148
- Letter by a Spanish officer. Manuel de Santistevan; Manila, January 28, 1730 196
Commerce of the Philippines with Nueva EspaÑa, 1640–1736 (to be concluded). Antonio Álvarez de Abreu; Madrid, 1736. [From Extracto historial.] 227
Bibliographical Data 313

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