title: History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos
author: Luis H. Francia
description: <b>Praise for Luis H. Francia</b><br /><br /> "A new take on the Filipino story" -- <i>Inquirer.net</i>
zlib_text: #  The Philippine Islands, 1493–1898
  
    
  
  ##  Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their
  peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in
  contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic,
  commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest
  relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century,
  
    
  
  #  Volume XLI, 1691–1700
  
  ##  Edited and annotated by  **Emma Helen Blair** and  **James Alexander
  Robertson** with historical introduction and additional notes by  **Edward
  Gaylord Bourne** .
  
  ##  Contents of Volume XLI.
  
    1. [Preface](text00000.html#filepos0000003453) 9
    2. [Documents of 1691–1700](text00000.html#filepos0000039861)
      1. [Extracts from Jesuit letters](text00000.html#filepos0000041170) . Juan de Zarzuela, and others; Manila, 1691 and 1694 33
      2. [Discovery of the Palaos Islands](text00000.html#filepos0000051064) . Paul Clain, S. J.; Manila, June 10, 1697 