the
magazine Buddhism, (Rangoon, Burma), in March, 1904: "There remains
the question as to the autochthonous races which were displaced by
the Burmese, Talaings, Shans, Chins, and Karens in Burma. Before the
advent of these nations, the Negrito race appears to have occupied
southeastern Asia, including Burma. Remnants of it are still found
in the Andaman Islands, Philippines, Borneo, and Malaya."

[39] Apparently a reference to Manuel Estacio Venegas, a favorite of
Fajardo's, whose downfall Letona relates in sect. 59.

[40] Vascongado: a term applied to the people or products of the
Spanish provinces of Alava, Guipuzcoa, and Vizcaya (or Biscay).

[41] A phonetic rendering of one of the numerous names of a noted
Chinese corsair--generally known as Kue-sing or Ko-xinga; La Concepcion
also gives, as his original Chinese name, Tching-tching-cong,
and Coseng and Punpuan (in Diaz, Cogsin and Pompoan) as other
appellations. He also says that Kue-sing (the name meaning "adopted
son of a king") was adopted by the emperor Congun, who had no sons. The
accounts of various writers do not agree regarding the early history of
this adventurer; but that given by our text is apparently corroborated
by other accounts of Kue-sing's achievements and exploits during his
later years. Detailed relations of his career, and of his attempt
upon the Philippines, may be found in Diaz's Conquistas, pp. 461,
551-555, 616-637; Santa Cruz's Hist. de Filipinas, pp. 271-278, etc.;
Murillo Velarde's Hist. de Philipinas, fol. 270b-275; La Concepcion's
Hist. de Philipinas, vi, pp. 345 (sc. 355)-359, and vii, pp. 38-56;
Ferrando's Hist. PP. Dominicos, iii, pp. 12-17, 29-41, 47-67, 78-98;
Montero y Vidal's Hist. de Filipinas, i, pp. 313-322, 329. Ferrando
calls Kue-sing the "Attila of the East."

[42] Vittorio Ricci (Spanish Riccio) was a relative of the noted
Jesuit, Mateo Ricci. He made profession as a Dominican in 1635,
and was a student and afterward a teacher in the Dominican college
at Rome. Meeting there (1643) the noted Fray J. B. Morales, Ricci
decided to return with him to the East, and arrived at Manila in
1648. There he ministered to the Chinese for seven years, when he was
sent to the China mission. He was much favored by the noted Kue-sing
(or Ko-xinga), who obliged him to become his ambassador to Manila
(1662). Returning to China, Ricci found that Kue-sing was dead,
and persuaded the latter's officers that it was to their interest
to main