ILLUSTRATIONS


Aqvapolqve (view of harbor of Acapulco, Mexico); photographic
facsimile of engraving in Levinus Hulsius's _Eigentliche uund
wahrhaftige Beschreibung_ (Franckfurt am Mayne, M. DC. XX), p. 60;
from copy in library of Harvard University 103
View of Japanese champan; photographic facsimile of engraving in
T. de Bry's _Peregrinationes_, 1st ed. (Amsterdame, 1602), tome
xvi, no. iv--"Voyage faict entovr de l'univers par Sr. Olivier
dv Nort"--p. 42; from copy in Boston Public Library 223




PREFACE


The documents here presented range from 1605 to 1609. Many of them
concern the Chinese revolt of 1603 and its results, of which much
apprehension still exists; but the threatened danger passes away, and
the ordinances excluding the Sangleys from the islands are so relaxed
that soon the Parián is as large as in 1603. The usual difficulties
between the ecclesiastical and the secular authorities continue; and
to the religious orders represented in the islands is added a new one,
that of the discalced Augustinians, or Recollects. Acuña conducts an
expedition to drive out the Dutch from the Moluccas, and soon afterward
dies. Various commercial restrictions hinder the prosperity of the
islands; and the new fiscal, Guiral, complains of various illegal
and injurious proceedings on the part of officials. The expenses of