Emma Helen Blair
Published: 2017-10-24
Total Pages: 388
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Excerpt from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Vol. 40: 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; 1690-1691 In the present volume but one document appears in the chronological order of events in the islands; it is short, and is mainly concerned with the eccle siastical disputes which had been only partly quieted with the death of Archbishop Pardo. The rest of the volume is occupied by an ethnological appendix, which presents the observations of early missionary writers - Jesuit, Augustinian, and Franciscan - on the native peoples and their customs and beliefs. Due allowance being made for their ecclesiastical standpoint, these writers may be considered excel lent authority Ou this subject - especially Combés, who was one of the Jesuit pioneers in Mindanao. 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.