62 REMARKS AND OPINIONS. 



To collect the abundant harvest which natural 

 science has still to reap here, requires a longer 

 stay, and excursions to the different, and, more par- 

 ticularly to the more promising southern islands 

 and into the interior of them. There is still much 

 to be done, and employment for many. 



The Philippine islands have to boast of more 

 minute historians than many European king- 

 doms. * We are obliged to the translator of Zuniga 



* Antonia de Morga, Sucesos de Philipinas,- Mexico, 1603. 

 Pedro Murillo Valarde, Historia de la Provincia de Philipinas 

 de la Compania de Jesus, Manila en la iraprenta de la Comp. 

 de Jesus, 174-9, 2 vols. fol. 



Juan de la Concepcion, Recoleto Augustino descalzo. His- 

 toria General de Philipinas, Manila, 1788 — 92. 14 vols. 4to. 

 Joaquin Martinez de Zuniga del ordende San Augustin 

 Historia de las Islas Philipinas, Sampaloc, 1803, 1 vol. 4to : of 

 which an English translation has already passed through two 

 editions. An Historical View of the Philippine Islands, from 

 the Spanish of Martinez de Zuniga, by John Maver, London, 

 1814. 



Poblacion de Philipans, fol. : an imperfect statistical table, 

 with many errata in the figures, printed at Cavite en S. Telmo, 

 1817. It appears, that similar tables have appeared previously, 

 from about the year 1734, 



Carta edificante o Viage a la Provincia de Taal y Balayan, 

 por el Abate Don Pedro Andres de Castro y Amcedo, 1790, 

 4to. : MSS. in our possession. 



Besides these, the following historians are mentioned, which 

 we have not had an opportunity to consult. 



Fr. Gaspar de san Augustin. 



Colin Historia de Philipinas : an extract from the following, 

 Pedro Chirino, Historia de Philipinas, 1 vol., fol.: MSS. of the 

 library of the Colegio, and different chronicles and histories of 

 several monks' orders, or rather of their province, the Philippine 



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