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RESPECTING OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE FIRST 

 TROVINCE OF THE GREAT OCEAN. 



Neiv Sources Kadu, Don Luis de Totres Geographical 

 View, {with a chart,) 



According to the last discoveries of Saavedra, 

 in 1528 ; Villalobas, in 1542 ; Legaspi, in 1565, 

 and others. After the discovery of the Ca- 

 rolinas (perhaps Eap) by Lazeano, in 1686, 

 Paul Clain, the Jesuit, collected, in 1697> in 

 the Philippine islands, the first certain inform- 

 ation respecting the islands, which were after- 

 wards called the Carolinas, from natives of these 

 islands, who were driven by storms to Samal. We 

 also learn that those islanders frequently visited 

 these coasts, sometimes by accident and sometimes 

 by design. 



Lettre du P. Paul Clain, Lettres Edifiantes, 

 tom. i. p. 112. Aux Jesuites de France, Charles 

 Gobien, tom. vi. with a chart, by Serrano, which 

 deserves no attention. 



The zeal of the missions is awakened ; all the 

 monarchs of Europe are summoned to contribute 

 to spread the doctrines of Christianity. Several 

 ships are fitted out at Manilla, which kind fortune, 

 favouring the people, and to preserve their happi- 

 ness and independence, diverts from their object. 

 At last, Fathers Cortil and Duperon land in Son- 



