Excerpt from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Vol. 27: Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions; 1636-1637 The principal topics treated in this volume (1636 37) are the commerce of the Philippine Islands (especially with Nueva Espana) and the punish ment inflicted by Corcuera on the Moro pirates of Mindanao. The former is fully discussed by Juan Grau y Monfalcen, procurator of Filipinas at the Spanish court; the latter is related in various docu ments, written mainly by participants in the Min danao campaign. Certain minor documents relate to the administration of the islands and to the religious orders there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.