Letter : Mariana Islands, to Mariana, the Queen Regent of Spain, reporting on the Jesuit mission in the Mariana Islands, [ca. 1674].

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Letter : Mariana Islands, to Mariana, the Queen Regent of Spain, reporting on the Jesuit mission in the Mariana Islands, [ca. 1674].

Letter from around 1674 to Queen Mariana, widow of Philip IV and queen regent of Spain for her son Charles II, from Jesuit friar Pedro Comano, reporting on the status of the mission in the Mariana Islands, with additional material on the crops and natural resources found there.

[4] leaves ; 32 cm.

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