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Chapter 9: Second Sojourn Abroad

Hong kong and Macau

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Rizal left the Ph half sick and disillusioned

Vessel arrived in Amoy (Xiamen) but
disembarked instead in Hong Kong

Hong Kong
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Stayed until Feb 22 then left for Japan

Met with Jose Ma. Basa and Balbino Mauricio
o Exalted from the Philippines
Followed by Sainz de Varanda
o Governor Terreros former secretary
Noisy new year
Great wealth of the Dominicans who
maintained businesses in the Crown Colony
Visited Macau
o Feb 18-20

England
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Japan
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Arrived in Yokohama on Feb 28

Stayed at Tokyo Hotel
Moved over to Spanish legation on invitation of
its Secretary, Juan Perez Caballero
Country of great beauty
Few thieves and beggars
Usui Seiko / Osei San
o Daughter of a dormer Samurai
o Cultured woman who worked at the
Spanish consulate
o No other woman has loved him as much

United States
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Boarded Belgic on April 18, 1888

Arrived on February 28
Racial discrimination
San Francisco for two days
Moved to Oakland
Arrived in New York on May 13
Land of Great opportunity
Natural beauty and high standard of living
A colored man cannot marry a white woman
JIM CROW laws
o Advocated segregation of the colored
people from the Caucasians
o Legislated by various states

Ameica is the land par excellence of freedom

but only for the whites
o Answere when asked by Jose
Alejandrino
Left on May 16 1888

Arrived in Liverpool, London on May 24, 1888

o Guest in the house of Antonio Ma.
Regidor
Exile from the incidents of 1872
Escaped but secured pardon
Established lucrative law
practice
Moved into the house owned by the Beckett
family
Became acquainted with Dr. Reinhold Rost
o Librarian of the British Foreign Office
o Introduced him to the British Museum
Where he gained a copy of
Suecos las Islas Filipinas
Spent his time in London copying Morgas book
by hand and annotating its contents
o Annotations contained explanations
and arguments
Made short visits to Paris and Barcelona
Met with Marcelo H. Del Pilar and Mariano
ponce
o Promised to cooperate in the
propaganda effort
Wrote articles for La Solidaridad
o Organ of the reformists in Spain
o Graciano lopez jaena was the first
editor
Founded Circulo Hispano Filipino
o headed by Felipe de la Corte
o secretsry was Dr. Dominador Gomez
known as Franco Ramiro
o superseded by Asosacion Hispano
Filipina
composed of Filipino Reformist
enamored with Gertude Beckkett
o eldest daughter of his landlord
o left a sculpture of the heads od the
Beckkett sisters
other sculptures
o Prometheus Bound

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Triumph of Death over Life

Triumph of Science over Death

Suecos las Islas Filipinas

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Book of Philippine History

Covere the signing of the Papal Bull by Pope
Alexander VI
Written by Dr. Antonio de Morga
o Lieutenant governor of the Ph
o Member of Royal Audencia
More than 300 pages

La Solidaridad
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Wrote under the pen names

o Dimas-Alang
o Laon-Laan

Indios Bravos
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France
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Was in the midst of Preparations for the

commemoration of the centenary of the 1789
French Revolution
Stayed in acquaintances
o Valentin Ventura
o Justo Trinidad
Visited
o Trinidad pardo de Tavera
o Juan Luna (married do Trinidads sister)
o Edward Boustead
Spent a lot of time at Frances Bibliotheque
National
o Research
o French
Conceived several projects
o Group that would work for the revival
of nationalism among Filipinos
o Kidlat Club
o Indios Bravos
o Filipino College in Hong Kong
Published Suecos while in Paris
Wrote Por Telefono
o Reaction to the writings of Fr. Salvador
Font who wrote against Noli Me
Tangere

Kidlat Club
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Antonio Luna

Juan Luna
Julio Llorente
Gregorio Pautu
Baldomero Roxas
Gregorio Aguilera
Lauro Dimayuga
Conceived in an hour but also disappeared like
lightning

Inspired by American Indians dressed in their

traditional clothes
Filipinos should not be ashamed of their race
Event similar to Buffalo Bill
Wanted to hold international convention that
would coincide with the French centennial
celebrations
o Would be held by the International
Association of Filipinologists
o Headed by
Ferdinand Blumentritt
Edmund Plauchut as VP
Reinhold Rost and Antonio Ma.
Regidor as counsellors
Rizal as secretary
Was not supported by the French authorities

Belgium and Spain

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Arrived in Brussels, Belgium on Jan 28 1890

Lived in a boarding house run by Jacoby Sisters
Where he wrote his second novel, El fili
o He began writing in Calamba and
finished in Biarritz, France
Bad News
o Family was evicted from their lands
o Leaders of the Protesta were deported
Silvestre Ubaldo, Brother In
Law
Mateo Elejorde
Paciano Rizal
Antonio Lopez
o Leonor Rivera was reported to have
married to Henry Kipping
o Attacks from Wenceslao Retena
Whom Rizal challenged to a
duel

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Rizal and Antonio Luna quarreled over Nelly

Boustead but she was later engaged to Manuel
Earnshaw
Rivalry bet Marcelo H Del Pilar
o Rizal was the honorary leader
o Del Pilar was running the organization
Filipinos moved to reorganize the Asosacion
Hispano- Filipina
o Election actually took place
o Rizal lost having nineteen votes
o Rizal walked out and went to Brussels
then went to France
Stayed with the Boustead
family
Went to Paris and lived with Valentin Ventura
o Did not immediately leave for HK
because of the printing of El Fili

El Filibusterismo
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Ghent
o Place for printing
F.Meyer-Van Loo Press
o Printing shop
Paid the book in installments
Tempted to burn the manuscript
Valentin Ventura
o Gave the money to pay off all printing
costs
o Rizal handed to Ventura the galley
proof of his novel written with his
dedication

Hong Kong and Sandakan

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Left for HK after the printing of El Fili

October 18 1891, Rizal boarded Melbourne in
Marseilles
Arrived in HK on Nov29 1891
Wrote a letter to Queen Regent Maria Cristina
o Explaining the situation in Calamba
o Convinced the Spanish authorities in
manila to allow members of his family
to join him in HK before Christmas of
1891
Set up 2 clinics
o Rednaxela Street
o Remedios Terrace

Lorenzo Marquez
o Portuguese physician
o Helped Rizal build up a clientele
Started writing his 3rd novel
Articles that appeared in the Hong Kong
Telegraph
o La Mano Roja
Translation of Rousseaus Rights of Man
Constitution of La Liga Filipina
wanted the people of Calamba to be settled in
the virgin islands of North Borneo
o NB was looking for settlers
Left fot the Philippines to prove his detractors
wrong
Established La Liga Filipina and worked for the
North Borneo Project
Wrote two letters (knowing that he might die
on his return)
o 1st; he is returning to save many
innocent persons
o 2nd; he was putting himself at the
protection of the Spanish government
A case was filed of anti-religious and antipatriotic agitation
o Gov Gen Eulogio Despujol

Eduardo de Lete
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Wrote in La Solidaridad tht Rizal abandoned his

countrys cause in HK
Rizal was egotistic and opportunist

La Liga Filipina
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Self-help organization
Would work for the political, social and
economic reforms for the Filipinos

*Objectives:
1. To unite the Filipinos into a homogenous body
2. Mutual protection in every want and necessity
defense against all violence and injustice
3. Encouragement of instruction, commerce, and
agriculture among Filipinos
4. Study and application of reforms
5. ???

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