[8] The above matter in quotation marks, as appears from a footnote in the Ventura del Arco MS., is taken from a letter written by Father Manuel Azevedo, rector of Manila, May 3,1630.  Evidently “Manila” is an error for “Malaca,” and the letter was probably written to Manila, and the above section embodied in the relation written from that place.

[9] See account of the establishment of this mission, in Vol.  XVIII, p. 213.

[10] The festival here mentioned would seem, from its length, to mean the two feasts observed by the Chinese in the first month of the year—­New Year’s and the “feast of lanterns.”  See accounts of these and other feasts in Williams’s Middle Kingdom, ii, pp. 76-84; and Winterbotham’s Chinese Empire, ii, pp. 49, 50, 138-142.

[11] Fray Juan de Medina was born at Sevilla, and entered the Augustinian convent of that city.  On reaching the Philippines he was assigned to the Bisayan group, and was known to those natives by the name of “the apostle of Panay.”  A zealous worker, he was wont on feast days to preach to his flock in three languages—­Bisayan, Chinese, and Spanish.  He was minister at Laglag in 1613, at Mambusao in 1615, at Dumangas in 1618, at Panay in 1619, and at Passi in 1623; prior of the convent at Cebu in 1626; and definitor in 1629.  After twenty years of missionary labors, being soul-tormented, he asked and secured reluctant permission to return to Spain; but the exigencies of the weather prevented the ship from making its voyage.  Three years later he obtained permission to make the same voyage, but died at sea (1635).  Diaz, in his Conquistas, says that Medina composed many things in aid of his missionary work; but only the present history and four volumes of manuscript sermons in the Panayana language are known with certainty.  See Perez’s Catalogo, pp. 83-85; and Pardo de Tavera’s Biblioteca Filipina, p. 255.

[12] The island of Panay, in which is a village of the same name.  The Augustinian missionaries began their labors in this island in 1572, at Oton (or Ogtong).  Their first establishment in the archipelago was at Cebu (1565).  Dumangas mission was begun in 1578; Aclan, in 1581; Passi, in 1593; Ibahay, in 1611.  All these are in Panay.  See list of convents and villages founded by the Augustinians in the Philippines, from 1565 to 1880, at the end of Medina’s Historia, pp. 481-488.

[13] The monument of Legazpi and Urdaneta presented in this volume was the work of the sculptor, Agustin Querol, and of the architect, Luis Maria Cabello.  On the front and rear of the pedestal are the arms of Manila and Spain.  On one side are allegorical representations of the sea and, valor for Legazpi, and on the other the emblems of science for Urdaneta.  The pedestal ends above in a border upon which are the names of Magallanes, Elcano, Jofre de Loaisa, and Villalobos.  This monument is due to Senor Gutierrez de la Vega, who initiated a public subscription during the last years of the Spanish regime for a monument to the two discoverers.  As it arrived at Manila where Spanish authority in the islands was tottering or ended, it was placed in position by the Americans.  See “Espana y America,” (Augustinian review), for April, 1903, pp. 479-485.