The Galleon Guide to Manila [antikvár]

PART IINTRODUCING MANILA:A BRIEF HISTORY^^UT of the unión of time and a river a city is born.Consider Paris and the Seine, London and the Thames. Consider the cities on the banks of the Rhine; Madrid and the Manzanares; New York and the Hudson; Lisbon and the Tagus. Consider Romé and the Tiber; Tokyo and the Sumida; Melbourne and the Yarra.Out of the unión of time and the river Pásig, the city of Manila was born. Along the Pasig's swampy banks in days of old, the nilad (ixora manila) grew in abundance. The plánt gave the city its name. May-nilad, the ancients called it.The city of the nilad was old when the Spaniards came. The Indians, the Chinese, the Arabs, all had been here earlier. The Spaniards did not get here until the middle of the lóth century, and this story begins with their coming.THE COMING OF SPAIN24 September 1559, King Philip II at Valladolid ^^addressed a letter to his Viceroy in New Spain, Don Luis de Velasco, expressing his Royal wish: . .you dispatch