By Antonio de Morga
The courses of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made to be had edited (and occasionally translated) early bills of exploration. the 1st sequence, which ran from 1847 to 1899, comprises a hundred books containing released or formerly unpublished works through authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and overlaying voyages to the hot international, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This 1868 quantity is the 1st booklet in English of a ebook initially released in Mexico in 1609, which describes the Spanish 'discovery, conquest and conversion' of the Philippines within the 16th century, and the management of this a part of the Spanish empire. The introductory essay situates the e-book within the context of the historiography of the Spanish empire, and identifies parallels for the colonial event, and particularly for the remedy of indigenous peoples, within the concerns confronting the mid-nineteenth-century British empire.
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14 OF THE FIRST DISCOVERIES and provisions which were requisite for it, with which he set sail and discovered the straits to which he gave his name. 1 His ships went on to Maluco, where their crews had disputes and differences with the Portuguese who were in the island of Terrenate: and at last, not being able to maintain themselves there, they left Maluco in a ship named the Victory, which had remained to the Castilians out of their fleet; and they took as chief and captain Juan Sebastian del Cano,3 who performed the voyage to Castile, by the way of India, where he arrived with very few of his men, and he gave an account to his majesty of the discovery of the islands of the great archipelago, and of his voyage.
2 From the Spaniards having travelled westwards to the Philippines, there was an error of a day in their dates and almanacks. This was corrected in 1844, when, by order of the captain-general and the archbishop, the 31st of December, 1844, was suppressed, and the dates of Manila made to agree with those of the rest of the world. A similar correction was made at the same time at Macao, where the Portuguese who had travelled eastwards had an error of a day in an opposite direction. 3 The Dutch Memorable Emhassies states that the Spaniards sub- OF THE EASTERN ISLES.
14 OF THE FIRST DISCOVERIES and provisions which were requisite for it, with which he set sail and discovered the straits to which he gave his name. 1 His ships went on to Maluco, where their crews had disputes and differences with the Portuguese who were in the island of Terrenate: and at last, not being able to maintain themselves there, they left Maluco in a ship named the Victory, which had remained to the Castilians out of their fleet; and they took as chief and captain Juan Sebastian del Cano,3 who performed the voyage to Castile, by the way of India, where he arrived with very few of his men, and he gave an account to his majesty of the discovery of the islands of the great archipelago, and of his voyage.