THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 63 



for having spared us the duty of stopping at 

 tliis disgusting history, which consists of notliing 

 but a mixture of monastical disputes, and of the 

 struggles of the spiritual power with the temporal ; 

 in which the accounts of the missions in China, 

 Japan, &c. appear in a very unfavourable light. 

 Fr. Juan de la Conception has brought the history 

 down to the government of Aranda, in the year 

 I7C4. We shall now take a cursory view of the 

 present state of this Spanish settlement. 



The Spaniards include under the jurisdiction of 

 this government, the Mariana islands, the Caroline 

 islands, of which wrecked boats from thence gave 

 them the first information, and to which they resolv- 

 ed to extend their faith and their yoke ; and, lastly, 

 the southern islands of the Philippines, Magin- 



islands, which has been preserved in MS. in the convents of 

 these orders at Manilla. 



History of the Marianes. 

 Charles Gobien, Histoire des Isles Marianes, nouvellement 

 converties a la Religion Chr^tienne, et de la Mort glorieuse des 

 Premiers Missionaires qui y ontprech^la foi, Paris, 1700. 



History of the Discovery of the Caroline Islands, and the 

 Missions to than. 



Lettres ^difiantes, v. 1. 2d edition, v. 11. 16.18. Murillo 

 Velarde and Juan de la Conception, seem to have consulted no 

 other authorities than the letters and reports here enumerated. 



On the Peleto Islands iti particular. 

 George Keate, Esq. An Account of the Pelew Islands, from 

 the Journal and Communications of Captain Henry Wilson, 

 5th edition, London, 1803, 4;to. 



