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Excerpt from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Vol. 12: Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions; 1601-1604
These documents are followed by the noted and rare work of the Jesuit Pedro Chirino, Relacion de las Islas F ilz'pinas (roma, It is mainly in tended as a history of the missions in the islands con ducted by the Jesuits, begun in 1 581 Chirino himself arrived there in 1595, and gives a full and detailed account of the missions from that time until his de parture in 1602. Not only this, but he narrates many things of interest and importance regarding the people, their customs and character, their lan guage and state of civilization, their religious beliefs and worship, and the results of missionary labors and in¿uence upon them. Much of this information is of special value as one of the earliest records regard ing the Filipino peoples in their primitive condition, before they had had much contact with the white men; for the Jesuits went even beyond the outposts of Spanish civilization, among tribes who sometimes had never seen white men before. Chirino's Re lacion is here presented for the first time in an Eng lish dress; and the Editors are fortunate in securing for this publication some valuable annotations fro-m the hand of Rev. Pablo Pastells, s.j., of Barcelona, Spain, who was for some eighteen years superior of the Jesuit missions in the Philippines. Ch'irino's work is begun in the present volume, and will be concluded in vol. XIII.
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