(This is a veiled allusion to the old Latin saying The expedition of Villalobos, intermediate between Magellan's and Legaspi's, gave the name "Philipina" to one of the southern islands, Tendaya, now perhaps Leyte, and this name later was extended to the whole archipelago. Protestants, whom neither the Roman Catholics of Morga's day nor many Catholics in (Gerard J. Tortora), Science Explorer Physical Science (Michael J. Padilla; Ioannis Miaculis; Martha Cyr), The Law on Obligations and Contracts (Hector S. De Leon; Hector M. Jr De Leon), Auditing and Assurance Concepts and Applications (Darell Joe O. Asuncion, Mark Alyson B. Ngina, Raymund Francis A. Escala), Intermediate Accounting (Conrado Valix, Jose Peralta, Christian Aris Valix), Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering (Warren L. McCabe; Julian C. Smith; Peter Harriott), Calculus (Gilbert Strang; Edwin Prine Herman), The Life and Works of Jose Rizal Chapter 6 by Dr Nery, The Life and Works of Jose Rizal - Dr Nery, Chapter 1 Introduction to the Course Republic Act 1425, Chapter 2 19th Century Philippines as Rizals Context, Chapter 3 Rizals Life Family Childhood and Early Education, Chapter 4 Rizals Life Higher Education and Life Abroad, Chapter 5 Rizals Life Exile Trial and Death. To prove his point and refute the accusations of prejudiced Spanish writers against his race, Rizal annotated the book, Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, written by the Spaniard Antonio Morga. It was that in the journey after death to "Kalualhatian," the abode of the spirit, there was a dangerous river to cross that had no bridge other than a very narrow strip of wood over which a woman could not pass unless she had a husband or lover to extend a hand to assist her. more due to a religious belief of which Father Chirino tells. simple savages the act had nothing wrong in it but was done with the same naturalness after death to "Kalualhatian," the abode of the spirit, there was a dangerous river to had disarmed and left without protection. Morga wanted to chronicle the deeds achieved by the Spaniards in the discovery, conquest and conversion of the Filipinas Islands. Given this claim, Rizal argued that the conversion and conquest were not as widespread as portrayed because the missionaries were only successful in conquering apportion of the population of certain islands.. Morga's expression that the Spaniards "brought war to the gates of the Filipinos" Morga shows that the ancient Filipinos had army and navy with artillery and other implements of warfare. 1604, is rather a chronicle of the Missions than a history of the Philippines; still it He sent an account of this voyage back to Spain on 20 May 1594, from Vera Cruz. considered evidence of native culture. His book, published in 1609, ranges more widely than its title suggests since the Spanish were also active in China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, the Moluccas, Marianas and other Pacific islands. The The escort's to his contract with the King of Spain, there was fighting along the Rio Grande with the This book is included in the following series: Informa UK Limited, an Informa Plc company. Consequently, in this respect, the pacifiers introduced no moral improvement. Chapter 8 of the book was the least interesting because it gave a description of the pre-Hispanic Filipinos or Indios at the Spanish time. Cabaton, A., (Paris, 1914), 145Google Scholar. The barbarous tribes in Mindanao still have the same taste. Death has always been the first sign of European civilization on its introduction in the Pacific Ocean. Dominican and Augustinian missionaries that it was impossible to go anywhere to make (5 points) Before the annotation of Morga's book, he finds it for him to know what are the content and being stated on the book, thus he corrects the misleading . In spite of this promised compensation, the measures still seemed severe since those Filipinos were not correct in calling their dependents slaves. there were always more Filipinos fighting than Spaniards. But [1] It was published in 1609 after he was reassigned to Mexico in two volumes by Casa de Geronymo Balli, in Mexico City. He was also a historian. What would Japan have been now had not its emperors uprooted Catholicism? Despite the colonizers claim that they were solely responsible for refining the Philippine islands, Rizals beliefs say otherwise. Cloth. other a Portuguese, as well as those that came after them, although Spanish fleets, still past and possibly of the history of neighboring islands. Historians have confused these personages. 26. By the Jesuit's line of reasoning, the heroic Spanish peasantry in their war for independence would have been a people even more treacherous. to Colin, of red color, a shade for which they had the same fondness that the Romans To prove his point and refute the accusations of prejudiced Spanish writers against his race, Rizal annotated the book, Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, written by the Spaniard Antonio Morga. Because of him they yielded to their enemies, making peace and friendship with the If the work serves to awaken in you a consciousness of our past, and to blot from your memory or to rectify what has been falsified or is calumny, then I shall not have labored in vain. In matters of food, each is nauseated with what he is unaccustomed to or doesn't know is eatable. They had come to Manila to engage in commerce or to work in trades or to follow professions. The masters treated these, and loved them, like sons rather, for they seated them at their own tables an gave them their own daughters in marriage. under guise of preaching the faith and making Christians, they should win over the It will be seen later on in Morga that with the Spaniards and on behalf of Spain The raid by Datus Sali and Silonga of Mindanao, in 1599 with 50 sailing vessels and 3,000 warriors, against the capital of Panay, is the first act of piracy by the inhabitants of the South which is recorded in Philippine history. In order to support this supposition, Rizal went to look for a reliable account of the Philippines in the early days and at the onset of Spanish Colonization. unchanged, or to maintain its supremacy, or even to hold its subjects. In addition to the central chapters dealing with the history of the Spaniards in the colony, Morga devoted a long final chapter to the study of Philippino customs, manners and religions in the early years of the Spanish conquest. The worthy Jesuit in had. The Book of Dr. Antonio de Morga, Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, was important because it described the events in 1493-1603, and it was a clear account of the history of the islands. This may very well have been so, considering the hatred and rancor then existing, but those in command set the example. (Austin Craig). The men had various positions in Manila and some were employed in government work near by. [3][4]. Annotation of Antonio Morgas Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas. Magellan's transferring from the service of his own king to employment under the King of Spain, according to historic documents, was because the Portuguese King had refused to grant him the raise in salary which he asked. Legaspi's grandson, Salcedo, called the Hernando Cortez of the Philippines, was the "conqueror's" intelligent right arm and the hero of the "conquest." residence. But imagine how difficult it was to search for information during those with them 400 Tagalogs and Pampangans. He was also in command of the Spanish ships in a 1600 naval battle against Dutch corsairs, but suffered defeat and barely survived. refused to grant him the raise in salary which he asked. The Filipino chiefs who at their own expense went with the Spanish expedition against Ternate, in the Moluccas, in 1605, were Don Guillermo Palaot, Maestro de Campo, and Captains Francisco Palaot, Juan Lit, Luis Lont, and Agustin Lont. Green, O. H., Spain and the Western Tradition, III (Madison, 1965), 31Google Scholar; See also the Prologo and Discurse apologetico of the brothers Pinelo in the Epitome de la biblioteca oriental i occidental (Madrid, 1629).Google Scholar, 29. "Otherwise, says Gaspar de San Agustin, there would have been no fruit of the Evangelic Doctrine gathered, for the infidels wanted to kill the Friars who came to preach to them." The Buhahayen people were in their own country, and had neither offended nor declared war upon the Spaniards. Antonio de Morga was an official of the colonial bureaucracy in Manila and could consequently draw upon much material that would otherwise have been inaccessible. Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (English: Events in the Philippine Islands) is a book written and published by Antonio de Morga considered one of the most important works on the early history of the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. SJ., (Barcelona, 1904), three vols. Sucesos. That is, he knew how to cast cannon even before the coming of the Spaniards, hence he was distinguished as 4"ancient." As then been killed himself. It was Dr. Blumentritt, a knowledgeable Filipinologist, who recommended Dr. Antonio Morgas Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, which, according to many scholars, had an honest description of the Philippine situation during the Spanish period. The early cathedral of wood which was burned through carelessness at the time of the funeral of Governor Dasmarias' predecessor, Governor Ronquillo, was made, according to the Jesuit historian Chirino, with hardwood pillars around which two men could not reach, and in harmony with this massiveness was all the woodwork above and below. for this article. Argensola writes that in the assault on Ternate, "No officer, Spaniard or Indian, went 1. The first English translation was published in London in 1868 and another English translation by Blair and Robertson was published in Cleveland in 1907. Philippine culture. The worthy Jesuit in fact admits that he abandoned writing a political history because Morga had already done so, so one must infer that he had seen the work in manuscript before leaving the Islands. He may have By the Christian religion, Doctor Morga appears to mean the Roman Catholic which by fire and sword he would preserve in its purity in the Philippines. The same mistake was made with reference to the other early events still wrongly commemorated, like San Andres' day for the repulse of the Chinese corsair Li Ma-hong. As to the mercenary social One canon, a rich man, having lost everything he possessed in these gambling sessions, died destitute. 3. narrates observations about the Filipinos and the Philippines from the perspective of the Morga's mention of the scant output of large artillery from the Manila cannon works because of lack of master foundry men shows that after the death of the Filipino Panday Pira there were not Spaniards skilled enough to take his place, nor were his sons as expert as he. It was published in 1609 after he was reassigned to Mexico in two volumes . Name______________________________________, Course and Section _________________________. In this lesson, you will learn the importance of analyzing other peoples works in King of Spain, according to historic documents, was because the Portuguese King had Yet the government was unable to repel them or to defend the people whom it had disarmed and left without protection. Soliman. But through this error and the inaccuracy of the nautical instruments of that time, the Philippines did not fall into the hands of the Portuguese. These traditions were almost completely lost as well as the mythology and the genealogies of which the early historians tell, thanks to the zeal of the missionaries in eradicating all national remembrances as heathen or idolatrous. is restoring this somewhat. the past in order to gain a deeper understanding of our nation, with anticipation that you, 4. The native fort at the mouth of the Pasig river, which Morga speaks of as equipped with brass lantakas and artillery of larger caliber, had its ramparts reenforced with thick hardwood posts such as the Tagalogs used for their houses and called "harigues", or "haligui". hasContentIssue true, Copyright The National University of Singapore 1969, Antonio De Morga and his Sucesos De Las Islas Filipinas, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0217781100005081, Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. title, Spanish sovereignty. Their general, according to Argensola, was the broadest sense. The English, for example, find their gorge rising when they see a Spaniard eating snails, while in turn the Spanish find roast beef English-style repugnant and can't understand the relish of other Europeans for beefsteak a la Tartar which to them is simply raw meat. For him, the native populations of the By virtue of the last arrangement, Boxer, C. R., Some Aspects of Spanish Historical Writing on the Philippines', in Hall, D. G. E., ed., Historians of South East Asia (London, 1961), 2013Google Scholar. Translated and edited by James S. Cummins, Reader in Spanish, University College, London. Martin Perez de Ayala's autobiography gives a vivid impression of how the Moriscos were regarded in sixteenth-century Spain: in1 1550 when he became bishop of Gaudix he felt as though he had been appointed to a new church in Africa. our own day consider Christians. religious chroniclers who were accustomed to see the avenging hand of God in the Render date: 2023-03-04T07:52:09.876Z It was not discovered who did it nor was any investigation ever made. (Hernando de los Rios Coronel in Blair, XVIII, 329; see also Torres-Navas V, No. The Emperor was to be informed that trade relations with Japan were desired, for the Japanese brought arms, iron, bronze, salpetre, and meal (Juan de Ribera, SJ., Casos morales' f. 149.r, MS in archive of San Cugat college, Barcelona).