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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898

PREFACE
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Inasmuch as this is a matter that demands a more orderly and full treatment, in regard to experience and certain well considered relations, I shall not involve myself further in it, until I shall be able to do so with these necessary conditions.

But I shall endeavor to do it as soon and as much better as possible.
[_Marginal note_: "It is well.

Endeavor will always be made to reenforce and protect those islands and your government with the forces possible.

But as these are limited, and consumed in so many diverse occasions and armies in Germany, Flandes, and Ytalia, and other places, it is highly advisable, as has been written you, to be careful in your expenses and in the accuracy of their account.

It is also desirable that you endeavor to work the mines of the country, and to carry on a factory and the trade of cloves and drugs as much as is possible, so that you may sustain yourselves and may not prove so expensive, as has been represented to you in preceding clauses."] 28th.


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