iling and
Los Banos. See Chirino's account of these springs, in chap. X of his
_Relacion_ (_Vol_. XII of this series). Cf. the more detailed accounts
by La Concepcion (_Hist. de Philipinas_, iv, pp. 134-151), Zuniga
(_Estadismo_, i, pp. 180-185), and Buzeta and Bravo (_Diccionario_,
ii, pp. 168-179). The virtues of these waters were first made known
by St. Pedro Bautista, the noted Franciscan martyr (_Vol_. VIII,
p. 233), in the year 1590; and he undertook to found there a hospital,
but for lack of means this project languished until 1604, when it was
duly organized, under the charge of a Franciscan lay brother, Fray
Diego de Santa Maria. Various grants were made to this institution, at
different times, by colonial and local authorities; and in 1671 large
and suitable buildings of stone were erected--which, however, were
destroyed by fire in 1727. The hospital seems to have retrograded,
in extent and management, early in its history; Zuniga found it
in very poor condition, at the end of the eighteenth century. See
chapter on "Minero-medicinal waters" of the islands in U.S. Philippine
Commission's _Report_, 1900, iii, pp. 217-227.

[40] The name applied to any knight of a military order who received
one of die ecclesiastical benefices called _encomiendas_. These were
suitably-endowed dignities conferred on knights of those orders.

[41] After Acuna's death, Rodrigo de Vivero was sent from Nueva Espana
to govern the Philippines _ad interim_, where he arrived June 15,
1608. He remained less than one year in this poet, and was then made
governor of Panama. In April, 1609, arrived his successor, Juan de
Silva, a member of the Order of Santiago; and distinguished by military
service in Flanders. He governed the Philippines for seven years, and
died at Malaca, on his way with an expedition to the Spice Islands,
on April 19, 1616.

[42] _Situado_ is used here to mean the extra income from the
encomiendas which is obtained by increasing the tribute from eight
reals to ten. This was done at the time when Gomez Perez Dasmarinas
was sent to govern the Philippines; see his instructions (_Vol_. VII,
pp. 145, 146), and cf. Morga's _Sucesos_, chap. viii (_Vol_. XVI of
this series; and Hakluyt Society's trans., pp. 325, 326). The two
reals thus gained were to be thus applied: one-half real, to pay the
obligations of the tithes; one and one-half reals, for the pay of
soldiers, etc.

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