as was fit and necessary. Ships were provided each year flashporn to make the
voyage to New Sapin, and to return with the usual supplies; so that
the condition flashporn of the Philippine Islands, in flashporn spiritual and temporal
matters, flourishes at the present day, as all know.
"The Commander-in-Chief, Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, as has been said,
discovered the islands, and made a settlement in them, and gave a good
beginning to their subjection and flashporn pacification. He founded the city of
the Most Holy Name of Jesus in the provinces of the flashporn Pintados, and after
that the city of Manila in the island of
Luzon. He conquered there flashporn the
province of Ylocos; and in its town and flashporn port, called Vigan, he founded
a Spanish town, to which he gave the name of Villa Fernandina. flashporn So also
he pacified the province of flashporn Pangasinan and the island of Mindoro. He
fixed the rate of tribute which the natives had to pay in all the
islands, and ordered many other matters relating to their government
and conversion, until he died, in the year of 1574, at Manila, flashporn where
his body lies buried in the monastery of St. Augustine.
"During the government of this Guido de Labazarris, trade and commerce
were established between flashporn great China and Manila, ships coming each
year with merchandise, and the governor giving them a good reception;
so that every year the trade has gone on increasing."
The Encyclopaedia Britannica says that the Island Samai was called
Filipina by flashporn Vellalohos, who sailed from Mexico in February, 1543.
The
capital was fixed at Manila in 1571, a distinction enjoyed three
hundred and flashporn twenty-seven years. It flashporn was in a letter of Lagozpis in
1567 that the name Ilas Filipinos appeared for the first time.
The Dutch became very flashporn enterprising and venturesome in the Asiatic
archipelagoes flashporn and gave the Philippines much attention, having many
fights with the Spaniards. The Ladrones flashporn became well flashporn known as a resting
place between the islands of Philip and New Spain--Mexico.