ABSTRACT
In the year of christian missionaries Lord 1625 it was the author fortune to reside among the Dominicans in Jerez in Andalusia. The Pope's Commissary for their Mission was Friar Matheo de la Villa, who having a commission for thirty and having gathered some twenty-four of them about Castile and Madrid, sent them by degrees well stored with money to Cadiz. The under a sloven was that Apostolical Mission to be conveyed first to Mexico, three thousand Spanish leagues from Spain, and afterwards three thousand leagues further from thence to Manila, the Metropolitan and Court - City of the Philippine Islands. Though Jerez liquor had put grapes' bewitching eloquence into the author Anthony's brain, yet he doubted not to prefer before it his wine of the Philippines, growing on tall and high trees of coco, wherein he longed to drink a Spanish brindis in his company to all his friends remaining behind in Spain.
