cal instruments, and ecclesiastical jewels.

91. Cabite, two leguas from Manila, is the chief port of Filipinas;
it is safe, and very convenient for all the ships of that region. With
soldiers, pilots, and mariners, it numbers one hundred and fifty
Spanish citizens; there are also many Indians, and it has a ward
of Mahometan Lascars, and another of Chinese. It has a parochial
church, with secular priests, a hospital, and convents; that of San
Francisco is the second of this [Franciscan] province, the third
being that of Ternate. The rest of the convents are in mission
parishes, each one with a religious or two teachers. There are six
in the environs of Manila--Dilao, Santa Ana, Sampaloc, Polo, Bocaui,
and Meycahuayan. There are ten [sic] along the lake of Bay--Moron,
Tanay, Pililla, Mabitac, Siniloan, Pangil, Paete, Lumban, Santa
Cruz, Pila, and Banos. There are seven in the mountains or tingues
of that lake--Nacarlan, Lilio, Mahayhai, Cabinti, Luchan, Tayabas,
and Sadiaya. On the seacoast between east and north are six--Baler,
Casiguran, Binangonan, Mauban (or Lampon), Atimonan, and Silanga
(an island), where end the archbishopric and the use of the Tagalog
language. The same coast extends through the province and bishopric of
Camarines; and journeying by way of the eastern point to the southern
coast, there are twenty convents--Paracali, Indan, Daet, Ligmanan,
Quipayo, Naga (which is Caceres), Bula, Iriga, Libon, Polanguin, Oas,
Camarines, Albay, Tabaco, Malinao, Bacon, Casiguran, Nabua, Quipia,
and Bolosan. For just reasons, I omit the administration of Ilocos,
Panay, and other districts. In Great China the order now has father
Fray Antonio de Santa Maria, a man who is great in learning and
in the religious life; with another companion, a learned preacher,
he aids in the propagation of the gospel in that great empire.

92. This province is the only one of these Indias that has six of its
sons as holy canonized protomartyrs in Xapon--besides twenty-seven
other martyrs here and in other islands. This province has also gained
great distinction by having in Manila the convent of Santa Clara,
and in it Mother Geronima with many others who have inherited much
of her spirit.

93-94. [In these sections Letona enumerates some of the holy
Franciscans who have been canonized from the Indias.]

EVENTS IN MANILA, 1662-63

Relation of the events in the city of Manila from the embassy sent
by Cotsen, [41] captain-