It 



(^ M A NI LL A ISL AN DS. 



to have been done by the inftigation of the DuU/j or SfWniarcls^ 

 jealous of their commercial interefts in that neighborhood. 

 Manilla At a fmall diftance to the north, about Lat. 7°, begins the 



j.-t.uNt5. ^^^^ group of the Philippine iilands; thefe are much more pro-- 



bably the Maniola of Ptolemy, than the leffer Anda-man^ which 

 UAnville fuppofes it to have been. Thefe iflands were known 

 to the antients by the Indian name, which is ftill retained in 

 Manilla \ Ptolemy fpeaks of them as ten iflands immediately be- 

 yond the tres injula Satyrorum, or Borneo, &c. They were firft 

 difcovered by the great Magellan, who came in fight of them on 

 April 17th 1521, and named them the Archipelago of St. Lazarus. 

 He landed on one of them called Ma^an, near to Zel^u, where, ac- 

 ording to Pigafetta, a companion and eye witnefs, he, with 

 eight or nine of his men, was flain in an encounter with the 

 natives. 

 When The difcovcry of thefe iflands was completed in I54i> by a 



DISCOVERED. 



Spaniard of the name of Ruy Lopez de Villalobos, who named 

 them the Philippine, in honor of Philip prince of Spain, after- 

 wards Philip II. We chufe to retain the antient name the Ma- 

 nillas. 



The firft fettlement made by the Spaniards in thefe iflands 

 was not till the year 1565, when Michael Lopez de Lagaspi built a 



Zebu, town in the ifle of Zebu. He fecured it by a fmall garrifon, and 



then proceeded to the conqueft of other iflands more worthy of 

 his arras. He failed into a fine bay in the ifland of Manilla or 



Island of Luconia, and was, in 1571, the founder of the city of Manilla, fo 



LUCONIA, 



celebrated for its opulence, and for being the common rejoofi- 

 tory and place of exchange of the produdions of both the Indies; 



one 



