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Excerpt from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Vol. 47: 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; 1728-1759
The documents presented in this volume (which covers the years 1728 59) form a comprehensive and interesting survey of the islands and their condition social, religious, military, and commercial - during the middle portion of the eighteenth century; and the writers of these are prominent in their respective spheres of action. The appendix furnishes a valu able description of the savage Zambals of western Luzon, written by a Dominican missionary among that pe0p1e in 1680.
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