[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 council and his secretary.  On the authorship see Retana’s Archivo ii, Biblioteca Gen., p. 25, which corrects his conjecture published in his Zuniga, ii, p. 135.

[85] Apuntes Interesantes, pp. 42-43.

[86] Zuniga, Estadismo, i, p. 246; Le Gentil, ii, p. 172.

[87] Le Gentil, ii, p. 172.

[88] Morga, p. 336.

[89] Morga, ibid.

[90] Memorial dado al Rey por D. Juan Grau y Monfalcon, Procurado General de las Islas Filipinas.  Docs.  Ineditos del Archivo de Indias, vi, p. 444.

[91] Recopilacion, lib. ix, tit. xxxv, ley vi and ley xv.  As will be seen there was usually only one ship.

[92] Ibid., ley xxxiv.

[93] Ibid., ley lxviii.

[94] Ibid., ley lxxviii.

[95] Ibid., ley xlv.

[96] Morga, p. 344.  Zuniga, i, pp. 271-274.  “El barco de Acapulco ha sido la causa de que los espanoles hayan abandonado las riquezas naturales e industriales de las Islas.” Ibid., p. 443.

[97] Le Gentil, ii, pp. 203-230; Zuniga, i, p. 266 ff.

[98] Le Gentil, ii, p. 205; Careri, Voyage Round the World, Churchill’s Voyages, iv, p. 477.

[99] Zuniga, i, p. 267.