[31] Veinte e cuatros, literally “twenty-fours,” aldermen or regidors in the town councils of certain towns in Andalusia.

[32] A decree of like import, and couched in exactly the same language, was issued at the same place and on the same date in re the bishopric of Nueva-Caceres.  This decree is published in Doc.  Ined.  Amer. y Oceania, xxxiv, pp. 99—­101.

[33] Contract for disposing of goods by wholesale.

[34] As early as 1550 a decree was issued that, “when possible, schools should be established for the instruction of the Indians in the Castilian language” (Recop. leyes Indias, lib. vi, tit. i, ley xviii); but apparently this was not fully enforced.

[35] See the document here referred to, at the end of Vol.  V, and completed in Vol.  VI.

[36] Figueroa, “before leaving Iloilo, made his will, endowing the Jesuit college at Manila with two thousand pesos of income; and directed that in case his daughters should die their inheritance should pass to that college of San Jose” (Montero y Vidal’s Pirateria en Mindanao, i, p. 140).

[37] See Discovery of the Solomon Islands (Hakluyt Soc. publications, 2d series, nos. 7, 8; London, 1901); this contains Mendana’s and other narratives of his expeditions in the southern Pacific Ocean.

[38] A title given among Mahometans to certain persons of religious profession.

[39] This and other italic headings to paragraphs in this document are, in the original MS., marginal notes in another handwriting—­probably made by a clerk, for convenience of reference.

[40] When Figueroa began the conquest of Mindanao (1596) he was accompanied thither by two Jesuits—­Juan del Campo, a priest; and Gaspar Gomez, a lay brother.  The former was carried off by a fever, dying on August 10, 1596, at the age of thirty years, after little more than a year’s stay in the islands.  In his place, Juan de Sanlucar and Pedro de Chirino accompanied Ronquillo’s expedition in the following year.  Sanlucar entered the Jesuit order in 1570, and came to the Philippines in time to join the Mindanao expedition; he died at Palapag, April 26, 1612.

Pedro de Chirino entered the Jesuit order in 1580, and arrived at Manila ten years later.  He died there on September 16, 1635, at the age of seventy-eight.  His noted work, Relacion de las Islas Filipinas (Roma, 1604), will be presented in subsequent volumes of this series.  La Concepcion says of him (Hist. de Philipinas, v, p. 198):  “A man of great industry and of studious habits, who devoted to study and books all the time which was not occupied by his ministry to souls.”

[41] La Caldera, “the Caldron”—­a port in the extreme south of Mindanao, not far from Zamboanga; its primitive name, Cauite.

[42] The original MS. of this document is illegible or torn in many places:  these are indicated by leaders (...).