This is Volume 26 of the monumental 55-volume series The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, edited by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson. Covering the year 1636, it gathers explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, and detailed records of the Catholic missions during the Spanish colonial period.
Compiled from contemporaneous books and manuscripts, the volume documents the political, economic, commercial, and religious conditions of the islands. It is an essential primary-source collection for the study of mission history and Spanish colonial administration in Southeast Asia. This free EPUB edition makes the full text available for reading and research on any device.