) "one of
the greatest places of trade in the world."

[115] _Documentos Ineditos del Archivo de Indias_, v, pp. 475-77.

[116] It would be vain to guess how many hundred people there are who
are familiar with the denunciations of Las Casas to one who knows
anything of the more than six hundred laws defining the status and
aiming, at the protection of the Indians in the _Recopilacion_.

[117] Cf. Jagor: _Reisen in den Philippinen_, p. 31.

[118] _Voyage de La Perouse autour du Monde_, Paris, 1797, ii, p. 347.

[119] _History of the Indian Archipelago, etc_., by John Crawfurd,
F. R. S. Edinburgh, 1820, vol. ii, pp. 447-48.

[120] That I take to be his meaning. His words are: "Ces institutions
(i. e., the local administration) si sages et si paternelles ont valu a
l'Espagne la conservation d'une colonie dont les habitants jouissent,
a notre avis, de plus de liberte, de bonheur et de tranquillete
que-ceux d'aucune autre nation." i, p. 357. Cf. also his final chapter:
"L'idigene des Philippines est l'homme plus heureux du monde. Malgre
son tribut, il n'est pas d'etre vivant en societe qui paye moins
d'impot que lui. Il est libre, il est heureux et ne pense nullement
a se soulever." ii, p. 369.

[121] _A Visit to the Philippine Islands_, London, 1859, p. 18. Cf. the
recent opinion of the English engineer, Frederic H. Sawyer, who lived
in Luzon for fourteen years. "The islands were badly governed by Spain,
yet Spaniards and natives lived together in great harmony, and I do
not know where I could find a colony in which Europeans mixed as much
socially with the natives. Not in Java, where a native of position
must dismount to salute the humblest Dutchman. Not in British India,
where the Englishwoman has now made the gulf between British and
native into a bottomless pit." _The Inhabitants of the Philippines_,
New York, 1900. p. 125.

[122] _Reisen in den Philippinen_, p. 287.

[123] _Cornhill Magazine_, 1878, pp. 161, 167. This article is
reprinted in Palgrave's _Ulysses, or Scenes in Many Lands_.

[124] _The Inhabitants of the Philippines_, pp. vi, viii.

[125] "Ils font voir beaucoup d'inclination et d'empressement pour
aller a l'eglise lesjours de Fetes et Solemnites; mais pour ouir
la Messe les jours de preceptes, pour se confesser et communier
lorsque la Sainte Eglise l'ordonne, il faut employer le fouet, et
les traiter comme des enfans a l'ecole." Quoted by Le Gentil, ii,
p. 61, from Friar Juan Francisco de Sa