The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 31, 1640

Name: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 31, 1640
Author: Diego Aduarte

by Diego Aduarte

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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 31, 1640 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

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg.

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2013-03-24

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Public domain in the USA.

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Philippines -- History -- Sources Missions -- Philippines Philippines -- Discovery and exploration Demarcation line of Alexander VI

About the author

Diego Aduarte

1569–1636

A Spanish Dominican missionary and historian, he spent much of his life in the Philippines and became known for writing one of the early major chronicles of the Dominican mission there. His story blends travel, church history, and firsthand experience from Spain to Southeast Asia.

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