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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898

CHAPTER V
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55." The following is from the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid: 8.

_Letter to Fajardo_.--"Cedulario Indico, tomo 38, folio 101, num.

80." 9.

_Memorial, y relacion para sv magestad_ (Madrid, 1621), by Hernando de los Rios Coronel .-- This is translated and synopsized from the copy in the Library of Congress.
Appendix: Buying and Selling Prices of Oriental Products [The first list of prices that follows is from a compilation by the procurator of the Philippines, Martin Castanos, and is taken from a relation of Governor Juan de Silva entitled:] _Relation of the importance of the Filipinas and Terrenate_ The Malucas Islands yield from year to year four thousand four hundred bars of cloves.

Each bar is six hundred and forty libras.


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