This is Volume 40 of the 55-volume series The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, edited by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson. Covering the years 1690-1691, it presents explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, and records of the Catholic missions during the Spanish colonial period.
Drawn from contemporaneous books and manuscripts, the volume documents the political, economic, commercial, and religious conditions of the islands across these years. It is an important primary-source collection for the history of Catholic missions and Spanish rule in the Philippines. This free EPUB edition makes the full text available for reading and study on any device.