. The Far East and the new America; a picturesque and historic account of these lands and peoples, with the following special articles: China. cover or developthe natural re-sources of the col-ony. Juan Salcedoestablished the sys-tem of letting thenative chiefs andtheir male succes-sors rule over theirrespective tribesas long as theyacknowledged al-leQ;iance to theSpanish monarch, and rendered such tributes as were demanded. This practice was fol-lowed for over three hundred years. More than from any other sourcethe peace of the colony was assailed by dishonest officials and unscrupulousfriars
. The Far East and the new America; a picturesque and historic account of these lands and peoples, with the following special articles: China. cover or developthe natural re-sources of the col-ony. Juan Salcedoestablished the sys-tem of letting thenative chiefs andtheir male succes-sors rule over theirrespective tribesas long as theyacknowledged al-leQ;iance to theSpanish monarch, and rendered such tributes as were demanded. This practice was fol-lowed for over three hundred years. More than from any other sourcethe peace of the colony was assailed by dishonest officials and unscrupulousfriars. A faulty constitution, constructed on lines similar with that ofMexico, and but poorly understood, gave encouragement rather thanheld ill check contentions long and often bitter between the state andthe Church. Wherever the sword of Spain hewed the path for the royal stand-ard, the cross of the pontifical followers was planted on the battle-fields ere the blood of the slain was dry. It was so wherever tliefortune-seeking courtiers penetrated, whether amid the copper-huednatives of North America, the semi-civilised legions of the Aztec. OLl> LANXON ON M:A-WA7,L AT MANILA. 240 THE FAR EAST. princes, the Children of the Sun, or the heterogeneous races of the FarEast. The conversion of the natives to tlie religious doctrines of the CatholicChurch was the paramount object of Philip 11. in sending the Legaspiexpedition to the Philippines. Accordingly, a faithful leader in the sacredcause, who had been in Mexico, named Urdanate, and half a dozen Aiigus-tinian friars, were the pioneers of religious teachers in the Aiigiistinians were soon followed by the representatives of otlierorders, Dommicans, Franciscans, and the Recoletos, or barefooted doubt, these religious fathers, while often resorting to methods peculiarly
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