In the city there are about eighty or ninety, in four monasteries--one of St.Dominic, another of St.Francis, another of St.Augustine, another of the Recollect Augustinians--and the cathedral.

These places of worship have as handsome buildings as are those of the same class in Espana; and the whole city is built of cut-stone houses--almost all square, with entrance halls and modern _patios_ [_i.e._, open courts]--and the streets are straight and well laid out; there are none in Espana so extensive, or with such buildings and fine appearance.

The city has as many as five hundred houses; but, as these ate all, or nearly all, houses which would cost 20U or more ducados in this court, they occupy as much space as would a city of two thousand inhabitants here.

For the wall, as measured by me, is 2U250 geometrical pasos in circumference, at five tercias for each paso, which makes three quarters of a legua.

[53] In all these islands there are none unconverted except the Zambales, as I have said above, and those in the mountains where the mines are, and a few villages behind these same mountains, which are called the province of Ituri--so called because it was discovered by Don Luys Perez de las Marinas, in the time of his father, who sent him there.