Rizal's Second Trip Abroad

Rizal's Second Trip Abroad

Presented By:

• Dela Cruz, Theresa
• Guerrero, Novelyn
• Macaranas, Jiezelle

HONGKONG and MACAU

FEBRUARY 3, 1888

- Rizal left the Philippines half-sick and disillusion

- ZAFIRO (the vessel that he used)

- The vessel arrived in Amoy .

- He stayed in Victoria Hotel in Hongkong

- Rizal met Jose Maria Basa, Balbino Maurico and Maurico Yriarte who were former exiles

- Visited Macau along with a friend, Jose Maria Basa in Feb. 18 with a vessel called Kiu-Kang

• Sainza de Veranda- a former secretary of Gov. Terrero that spied Rizal which was in Hongkong

He studied the Chinese way of life by observing the ff:

• Chinese New Year
• Chinese theater
• Marathon Lauriat Party
• Richest order in Hongkong (The Dominicians)
• cemeteries in Hongkong

He left Hongkong on board the Oceanic.

Japan a.k.a The Land of Cherry Blossom

• Rizal arrived at Yokohama on Feb 28, 1888
• He stayed at Grand Hotel
• The next day he went to Tokyo and stayed from March 2-7
• Later he moved to Spanish legation on invitation of secretary, Juan Perez Caballero

• daughter of former samurai who became a proprietor of bazaar in Tokyo
• a culture woman who worked at Spanish Consulate
• Rizal's love for Osei-san made him almost change his mind
• he stayed for 45 days in Sayonara, Japan

Seiko Usui or Osei-san

TETCHO SUEHIRO

• Rizal left Yokohama on April 13, 1888 on board bound to USA
• The vessel is called Belgic.

• Rizal reached SAN FRANCISCO on Apr. 28, 1888.
• Dubbed America as "A motherland for the poor who wish to work".
• He described America as a great country, but it has many defects too. They do not have real civil liberty.
• When he was asked by Jose Alejandro about his impression of the country, he stated: AMERICA IS THE LAND PAR EXCELLENCE OF FREEDOM BUT ONLY FOR THE WHITES.

Rizal arrived in New York on May 18, 1888

He left New York on May 16, 1888 and stayed for a day before moving to London where he stayed as a guest in the house of Antonio Ma. Regidor

He called New York the Big Town.

LONDON

He lived in London from May 1888 - March 1889. He chose it for 3 reasons:

• to improve his knowledge on English
• to study Dr. Antonio de Morga's book SUCCESOS DE LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS, which is found in the British Museum.
• London was safe from the Spaniards.

• He worked in the British Museum Library, studied, copied, and published Morga's book.
• He stayed as a guest of Dr. Antonio Ma. Regidor.
• By May, he moved to a boarding house owned by the Beckett family.
• Because he was an excellent linguist, he became good friends with Dr. Reinhold Rost, a Sanskrit scholar, the greatest scholar of that century. He even spent time with him.
• Rost was impressed with his manners and called him "UNA PERLA DE HOMBRE" or Pearl of a Man.

News From Calamba

March 19, 1889 He left London

• persecution of Filipino Patriots who signed "Anti-friars" petition of 1888
• persecution of Calamba tenants
• Senators attacking Rizal
• Manuel Hidalgo, Saturnina's Husband was exiled to Bohol
• Laureano Viado his friend, was arrested for possessing copies of Noli
• Rev. Vicente Garcia's favorable defense of the Noli