The document summarizes the decline of the population in the Philippines following Spanish colonization. Internal wars, the introduction of piracy from neighboring islands, and the capture of Filipinos by pirates greatly reduced the population. Friar writings from the 17th century describe depopulated provinces and towns with exterminated families. The population was estimated to have been reduced by one-third within 30 years of Spanish arrival due to these factors.

2.  First came the wars the internal disorder
which the new change of affairs naturally
brought with it.
 Add to this conditions of disorder the
invention of Li-Mahong and continual war
into which the inhabitants of the Philippines
were plunged to maintain the honor of
Spain.
 To extend the sway of her flag in Borneo in
moluccas and in Indio-china.

3.  Gaspar de San Agustin says: “Although
anciently there were in this town of
Dumangas many people in the course of the
time they have very greatly diminished
because the natives are the best sailors.
 Philippines in the first year after the discovery
in the time of their first bishop that is ten
year after legazpi. Philip II said that they had
been reduce to less than two birds.

4.  With the invention of the pirates from sulu
and mindanao Padre Gaspar de San Agustin
‘has been greatly reduced because they easily
captured the people.
 The hostile sulus did great damage in this
island in 1608 leaving it almost depopulated.
 Padre Fernando de los Rios colonel who
fought in this wars and later turned priest
needed was scarcely to be found in the forest.

5.  Thus understood that sad discouragement
which we find in the friar writers of the 17th
century of provinces and town depopulated
leading the families exterminated.
 Even were Filipino not a man like the rest
even to suppose that zeal in him for essential
movement.

6.  Mothers who kill their children in bearing them
and you will understand how in less than thirty
years the population of Philippines reduced one
third.
 When we see the pius but impotent friars of that
time trying to free their poor parishioners from
the tyranny of the encommenderos by advising
them to stop work preparing them for death as
their only conclusion.
 There are concerned to their population at that
time.