account of this system of local administration is
the clearest of those I have found in English books. _A Visit to the
Philippine Islands_, London, 1859, pp. 89-93.

[71] The Gobernadorcillo in council with the other Cabezas presented
a name to the superior authority for appointment Bowring, p. 90.

[72] Zuniga, _Estadismo de las Islas Filipinas_, i, p. 245. Cf. Mallat,
i, p. 358.

[73] Comyn: _State of the Philippine Islands_, ch. vii.

[74] Mallat, i, pp. 40, 386. Jagor, pp. 95-97.

[75] Mallat, i, p. 380 ff. Comyn, p. 212 ff.

[76] Mallat, i, p. 365.

[77] Morga, p. 333.

[78] Delgado: _Historia de Filipinas_, Biblioteca Histories Filipina,
Manila, 1892, pp. 155-156. Delgado wrote in 1750-51. Somewhat different
figures are given by Le Gentil on the basis of the official records
in 1735, ii, p. 182. His total is 705,903 persons.

[79] Le Gentil, i, p. 186.

[80] _Recopilacion_, lib. vi, tit iii, ley xxi. Morga, p. 330.

"Avec toutes les recommandations possible, il arrive encore que
le moine charge de la peuplade par ou vous voyagez, vous laisse
rarement parler seul aux Indiens. Lorsque vous parlez en sa presence a
quelque Indien qui entend un peu le Castillan, si ce Religieux trouve
mauvais que vous conversiez trop long-temps avec ce Naturel, il lui
fait entendre dans la langue du pays, de ne vous point repondre en
Castillan, mais dans sa langue: l'Indien obeit." Le Gentil, ii, p. 185.

[81] _State of the Philippine Islands_, pp. 216-217. These
responsibilities and the isolation from Europeans together with the
climate frequently brought on insanity. Le Gentil, ii, p. 129. Mallat,
i, p. 388.

[82] _Ibid_., p. 214.

[83] In 1637 the military force maintained in the islands consisted of
one thousand seven hundred and two Spaniards and one hundred and forty
Indians. _Memorial de D. Juan Grau y Monfalcon, Procurador General
de las Islas Filipinas, Docs. Ineditos del Archivo de Indias_, vi,
p. 425. In 1787 the garrison at Manila consisted of one regiment of
Mexicans comprising one thousand three hundred men, two artillery
companies of eighty men each, three cavalry companies of fifty men
each. La Perouse, ii, p. 368.

[84] _Apuntes Interesantes sobre Las Islas Filipinas, etc., escritos
por un Espanol de larga esperiencia en el pais y amante del progresso_,
Madrid, 1869, p. 13. This very interesting and valuable work was
written in the main by Vicente Barrantes, who was a member of the
Governor's counci