. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 : 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 beginning of the nineteenth century; . arer, they found some small barren islands,stretching north and south, to which they gave thename Placeres.^^ In the afternoon another island,upon which lived many birds, was sighted, and they
. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 : 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 beginning of the nineteenth century; . arer, they found some small barren islands,stretching north and south, to which they gave thename Placeres.^^ In the afternoon another island,upon which lived many birds, was sighted, and theynamed it from the birds. From this point they con-tinued to discover islands and barren islets, all ofthem in the latitude of ten degrees; and they gavevarious names to them. Here Father Urdaneta or-dered the vessels to ascend to the thirteenth degree,so that by running westward and turning their courseto the southwest, until they reached twelve and one-half degrees, they might reach the Filipinas. OnSaturday, January 22, the Ladrones Islands werediscovered, so called because their inhabitants are ^^ In hydrography the name placeres is given to the layer of sandin stagnant water or alluvion vi^hich usually has particles of Placeres are in the western part of the Carolinas. See SanAgustins Conquistas, p. 67, and Montero y Vidals El arch-iptelago filipino (Madrid, 1886), pp. |f-lllHni»rB \m tlllll IHIIIBHIHHI i archipela&us S^Lazari ot i)k Mahianes Eila:nden VoJ^eus de Kaartea en Schriftfn der Spaanlche Zendeliaffln JeiidtejxBoor denHBellii Map of the Marianas Islands (with large inset of the island of Guam) ; from Bellins map in Historische Beschryving der Reizen (Amsterdam, 1758) [From copy in library of JVisconsin Historical Society~\ 1629-1630] MEDINAS HISTORIA 137 robbers, to as great an extent as possible. They arevery different from the natives of the other islands,whose goodness is such, that they do not know whatit is to steal. And if I admit th
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