This is Volume 28 of the 55-volume series The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, edited by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson. Covering the years 1637-38, it presents explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, and extensive records of the Catholic missions during the Spanish colonial period.
Assembled from contemporaneous books and manuscripts, the volume documents the political, economic, commercial, and religious conditions of the islands across these years. It is a key primary-source collection for historians of Catholic missionary work and Spanish rule in the Philippines. This free EPUB edition makes the complete text available for reading and study on any device.