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.

Prof.  E.G.  Bourne says:  “Many of the Spanish colonies received regular situados from the crown to make up their annual deficits.  The word may mean subsidy, appropriation, rent, or income, according to the context.”  Humboldt mentions—­in New Spain (Black’s trans.), iv, pp. 228, 229—­the situados, “remittances of specie annually, made to other Spanish colonies” from the treasury of Mexico, which in 1803 amounted to 3,500,000 piastres.  These remittances from Mexico of course ceased when that colony revolted from Spain and became a republic (1823).

Still another meaning of situado is given by Bowring (Philippine Islands, pp. 98, 99):  “As it is, the Philippines have made, and continue to make, large contributions to the mother country, generally in excess of the stipulated amount which is called the situado.”

[43] The husk surrounding the cocoanut; it is used for making cordage and calking vessels.