[87] The Assumption of the Virgin is August 15.

[88] That is, “Because we have sinned against thee, O Lord,” etc.

[89] This is a letter by Valerio de Ledesma, S.J., according to Colin (from whose Labor evangelica, pp. 806-810, we obtain it).  Compare with the first version of Ribera’s letter, ante, in which the account of Silva’s death is similar to that by Ledesma.  Colin has evidently edited both letters more or less, and it is difficult to ascertain what the exact original text was.

[90] Garcia Garces, S.J., was born in 1560 at Molina, in the diocese of Segovia, and entered the Society October 23, 1574.  Going to the Indias in 1588, he labored for several years in the missions of Japan.  He was rector at Nagasaki, whence he was exiled with his companions.  He went to Manila and later to Macao, where he died in 1628.  See Sommervogel’s Bibliographie.

[91] Melchor de Vera, S.J., was born at Madrid in 1585, and after being received into the Society in 1604, went to the Philippines in 1606, where he labored in the missions of the Bisayas and in Mindanao.  He served as rector of Carigara, and superior at Bapitan and Zamboanga.  His death occurred at the residence at Cebu, April 13, 1646.  He was a good civil and military architect, and planned and directed the building of the fortifications at Zam boanga, and constructed the church of his residence at Cebu.  See Sommervogel’s Bibliographie and Murillo Velarde’s Historia, book ii, chap. xxi.

[92] An account of this expedition is given in the first chapter of Murillo Velarde’s Historia (Manila, 1749), evidently taken in part from the present account.

[93] Inasmuch as Bonifaz, although junior auditor, obtained the office by trickery he was a true governor ad interim, and the Audiencia did not have charge of political affairs.

[94] The following authorities were used in compiling the above list of governors:  Morga, Sucesos de las Islas Filipinos (Mexico, 1609); Argensola, Conquistas de las Malucas (Madrid, 1609); Colin, Labor evangelica (Madrid, 1663)—­who mentions as authorities the authors Morga, Grijalva, and Chirino; San Antonio, Chronicas, parte primera (Manila, 1738); Murillo Velarde, Historia, (Manila, 1749); Delgado, Historia general (Manila, 1892); La Concepcion, Historia general (Sampaloc, 1788-1792); Zuniga, Historia de las islas Filipinos (Sampaloc, 1803), and Estadismo (Retana’s ed., Madrid, 1893); Mas, Informe de las Islas Filipinos (Madrid, 1843); Buzeta and Bravo, Diccionario (Madrid, 1851); Montero y Vidal, Historia general (Madrid, 1887), and Historia de la pirateria (Madrid, 1888); Combes, Historia de Mindanao y Jolo (Retana’s ed., Madrid, 1897); Catologo de la exposition general de las Islas Filipinos (Madrid, 1887); Algue, Archipielago Filipino (Washington, 1900); Sawyer, Inhabitants of the Philippines (New York, 1900); Calkins, “Filipino Insurrection of 1896” in Harper’s Monthly, vol. xcix, pp. 469-483; and various documents already published in this series.