NAVARRETE, Francisco Fernandez, a Spanish missionary, was born at Toledo in the first half of the seventeenth century, and was educated at Valladolid as a Dominican. In 1622 he set out on a mission to the Philippine Islands. While on his journey, he recommended him to the great Italian mission of theology in the college of Manila. He remained, however, in 1650, to China, and was much engaged in the interior of the country studying the Chinese language, manners, and customs, when the police which ruled a persecution against the Christian missionaries. Navarrete, along with some of his brethren, was sent a prisoner to Canton; but contriving to escape to Macao, he set sail home, and arrived in Europe in 1672. In the same year he made a visit to Rome, and had an interview with the Pope. His account before the Supreme Pontiff of the state of the Chinese mission was accompanied with a strong protest against the persecuting policy which the Jesuit missionaries used in dealing with the superstitions of the natives. After his return to Spain, Navarrete published his principal work, entitled Trinidad, historica, politica, etica y religiosa de la Monarquia de China, 2 vols., Madrid, 1678. At length, in 1679, he was rewarded for his eminent services by being appointed archbishop of San Domingo in the West Indies. His death happened there in 1680. The sixth book of the above-mentioned work of Navarrete was translated into English under the title of A Collection of Voyages and Travels, 2 vols., London, 1704.