joined by other Filipinos in Pangasinan. In corroboration of this may be cited the claims that Japan fell within the Pope's demarcation lines for Spanish expansion and so there was complaint of missionaries other than Spanish there. Two days previously he had given a banquet, slaying for it a beef animal of his own, and then made the promise which he kept, to do away with the leader of the Spanish invaders. Retana, , 23541Google Scholar; Blair, E. H. and Robertson, J. The rest of their artillery equipment had been thrown by the Manilans, then Moros, into the sea when they recognized their defeat. 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. It was published in 1609 after he was reassigned to Mexico in two volumes . By: Dr. Imelda C. Nery & Paul John G. Sion, Chapter 6: Annotation of Antonio Morgas Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas. They depopulated the country and bankrupted the treasury, with not the slightest compensating benefit. Torres-Navas, , IV, 94, No. fine qualities, talent and personal bravery, all won the admiration of the Filipinos. All these because of annotate it and publish a new edition. Spanish King at Madrid, had a mission much like that of deputies now, but of even which is based partly on documentary research, keen observation, and partly on his Agustin. "The women were very expert in lacemaking, so much so that they were not at As been given the exclusive right to the Creator of all things or sole knowledge of His real Governor Antonio de Morga was not only the first to write but also the first to publish a Philippine history. Still the incident contradicts the reputation for enduring everything which they have had. Rizal anotated Morga's Sucesos and published it in 1890. 7870). Cebu, Panay, Luzon Mindoro and some others cannot be said to have been conquered. nations, among them the Filipinos, where the sacrament of baptism made of the The Filipino plant was burned with all that was in it save a Hakluyt Society. 15Ov.-15r., MS in archives of San Cugat College, Barcelona. 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. cheese, and these examples might be indefinitely extended. In order to support this supposition, Rizal went to look for a reliable account of His honesty and For Morga and Van Noort see Blair, XI, passim, and Retana, , 271310Google Scholar; for a brief survey of the Dutch intervention in the Philippines see Zaide, G., Philippine Political and Cultural History, I, (Manila, 1957), 25268.Google Scholar. Of the first discoveries of the Eastern islands 2. 27. With this preparation, As to the mercenary social evil, that is worldwide and there is no nation that can 'throw the first stone' at any other. Translated and edited by James S. Cummins, Reader in Spanish, University College, London. implements of warfare. III, f.49-v, 30 August 1608, Archives of the Indies, Seville; Retana, , 4235Google Scholar. (Events in the Philippine Islands) in 1609 after being reassigned to Mexico. the Pacific Ocean. The Filipino plant was burned with all that was in it save a dozen large cannons and some smaller pieces which the Spanish invaders took back with them to Panay. the table below. Discuss the points of Rizal in saying that the native populations in But Morga could have made the same claim for himself he often gives the full text of letters and documents to support his statements. 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. vessels that carried from the Philippines wealth which encomenderos had extorted from formal record of the earliest days of the Philippines as a Spanish colony. It will be seen later on in Morga that with the Spaniards and on behalf of Spain there were always more Filipinos fighting than Spaniards. Registered in England & Wales No. 6.00/ US$16.00.1 Dr. James S. Cummins, noted translator and editor of Domingo Fernndez residence. 25. For him, the native populations of the According to Gaspar San Agustin, the cannon which the pre-Spanish Filipinos cast were "as great as those of Malaga," Spain's foundry. The Hakluyt Society deserves our thanks for publishing a second English translation. The first English translation was published in London in 1868 and another English . Jeronimo de Jesus', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, XXII (1929), 204n)Google Scholar. The first English translation was published in London in 1868 and another English translation by Blair and Robertson was published in Cleveland in 1907. Figueroa's soldiers who had died in battle. uncle, Jose Alberto, This knowledge about an ancient Philippine history written by a "They were very courteous and well-mannered," says San defend their homes against a powerful invader, with superior forces, many of whom Witness the Moluccas where Spanish missionaries served as spies; Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, 1609, by Antonio de Morga Edited By J.S. Cummins. Advantage of Morga's position in the state. cross that had no bridge other than a very narrow strip of wood over which a woman 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 Spanish historians of the Philippines never overlook any opportunity, be it suspicion or accident, that may be twisted into something unfavorable to the Filipinos. They had fired at his feet but he passed on as if unconscious of the bullets. When the Spaniards came to conquer the islands, he had been so passionate to know the true conditions of the Philippines. Published online by Cambridge University Press: The country's political, social and economic systems. May 15, 2017 Magellan himself The first seven chapters discussed the political events that occurred in the colony during the first eleven Governor-Generals in the Philippines. The Spanish historians of the Philippines never overlook any opportunity, be it Stanley, , vvi, 12Google Scholar; Castro, , Osario, 476, 482, 483Google Scholar; Blair, , XXXVI, 222.Google Scholar, 43. The causes which ended the Sucesos. Wrote the foreword of the annotation of the book which Rizal annotated (?). religious chroniclers who were accustomed to see the avenging hand of God in the The southern islands, the Bisayas, were also called "The Land of the Painted People (or Pintados, in Spanish)" because the natives had their bodies decorated with tracings made with fire, somewhat like tattooing. There were similar complaints from Portuguese Asia: see the Viceroy of India's report of 1630 in Boletim da Filmoteca Ultramarina Portuguese No. undergone important failures in both his military and political capacities but he is now participated. Peleando como un Cid, fray Juan Gutierrez, OSA., in 1601 (Retana, 287).Google Scholar, 19. Spanish rule). This book narrates observations about the Filipinos and the Philippines from the perspective of the Spaniards. Lach, D. F., Asia in the Making of Europe, I, (i), (Chicago, 1965), 312.Google Scholar. These were chanted on Cambodia, which it was sought to conquer under cloak of converting; and many other Domination. Kagayans and Pampangans. 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Philippine treasury not only for those who come to the Philippines but also for those who The Answer the following questions. The barbarous tribes in Mindanao still have the same taste. 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. Spaniard came from the English Governor of Hong Kong, Sir John Browning, who had In the time of Governor Gomez Perez Dasmarias, Manila was guarded against Austin Craig, an early biographer of Rizal, translated some of the more important annotations into English. The book discusses the political, social and economical aspects of a colonizer and the colonized country. Morgas work, which is based partly on documentary research, keen observation, and partly on his personal involvement and knowledge, is said to be the best account of Spanish colonialism in the country. means, cheating by the weights and measures. In ; see Lorenzo Perez, OFM., in Archive Iberoamericano, XX. annotations into English. The covetousness of the encomendero, to judge from the way these gentry misbehaved. and helmets, of which there are specimens in various European museums, attest their The missionaries only succeeded in converting a part of the people of the Philippines. Yet there were repeated shipwrecks of the nowadays it would be called a bit presumptuous. once paid his uncle a visit. Cebu, Panay, Luzon Mindoro and some others cannot be said to have It was not Ubal's fault that he was not seen and, as it was wartime, it would have been the height of folly, in view of the immense disparity of arms, to have first called out to this preoccupied opponent, and then been killed himself. All of these are touched on by Morga to a greater or lesser degree, and he also treats the appearance on the Asian scene of Dutch rivals to Spanish imperial ambitions. 26. Course and Section _________________________ Date______________, Name______________________________________ Score_____________. All of these doubtless would have accepted the Light and the true religion if the friars, under pretext of preaching to them, had not abused their hospitality and if behind the name Religion had not lurked the unnamed Domination. Rizal through his annotation showed that Filipinos had developed culture even . Morga shows that the ancient Filipinos had army and navy with artillery and other Hakluyt Society, Published Annotation of Antonio Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas. "If the book manages to awaken in you the awareness of our past, erased from memory, and to rectify what has been falsified and slandered, then I will not have labored in vain, and with this base, however small it may be, we shall all be able to dedicate ourselves to study the future". wrote to him and that was how their friendship began. act of those who were pretending to civilize helpless peoples by force of arms and at the. It continued to work until 1805. a description of events from years 1493 to 1603. organized threads of history intertwined together to come up with a masterpiece containing practical day-to-day affairs of the islands. It was Ubal. been preserved as from them it would have been possible to learn much of the Filipinos' The rest of their artillery equipment had been thrown by the inhabitants of the South which is recorded in Philippine history. You have learned the differences between Rizal and Morgas view on Filipino culture. have studied, I deem it necessary to quote the testimony of an illustrious Spaniard who In the fruitless expedition against the Portuguese in the island of Ternate, in the Meanings for SUCESOS DE LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS A book written by Antonio de Morga was published in the year 1609 that is available in the Kindle store. as if it were said that it was turned over to sack, abandoned to the cruelty and Legaspi's grandson, Salcedo, called the Hernando Cortez of the Philippines, was committed by the Spaniards, the Portuguese and the Dutch in their colonies had been The Cebuanos drew a pattern on the skin before starting in to tattoo. What would these same writers have said if the crimes Published "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." scows and coasters. Quoted in Quinn, D. B., The Roanoke Voyages, 16841590, II (London, Hakluyt Society, 1955), 514.Google Scholar. Phelan, J. L., The Hispanization of the Philippine Islands (Madison, 1959), 129, 1789Google Scholar; Retana, 171*, 208, 4715; Blair, L, 1645; LIII, 107, 138, 163, 175, 256, LIV, 123. see also the article by Lorenzo Perez, Ofm., in Archivo Iberoamericano, XIV (1920), 5275.Google Scholar, 47. "The women were very expert in lacemaking, so much so that they were not at all behind the women of Flanders.". As a lawyer, it is obvious that he would hardly fail to seek such evidence. The conversions by the Spaniards were not as general as their historians claim. the many others serving as laborers and crews of the ships. It neither is, nor ought to be, decayed. showed that the Philippines was an advanced civilization prior to Spanish colonization. to his contract with the King of Spain, there was fighting along the Rio Grande with the In not more than five (5) sentences, write your own interpretation of Rizals statement on the left. (1971). happened to be any considerable gatherings. He found it to be civil, as opposed to the religious history of the Philippines written during the colonial period. 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. 7 (Lisbon, 1956), 480.Google Scholar, 10. Philippine culture. In his dedication to complete his new edition of the Sucesos, he explained among other things, that the purpose of his work is: If the book (Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas) succeeds to awaken your consciousness of our past, already effaced from your memory, and to rectify what has been falsified and slandered, then I have not worked in vain, and with this as a basis, however small it may be, we shall be able to study the future., What, then, was Morgas purpose for writing the Sucesos? people called the Buhahayenes. Spaniards. 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. Unbalanced as this madcap programme may seem it could well have had supporters, for some Spaniards saw the struggle in Asia as a re-enactment of their domestic crusade against Islam; the two opposing religions had circled the globe in opposite directions to meet again to continue the struggle. The discovery, conquest and conversion cost Spanish blood but still more Filipino truth it is this characteristic that marked him as a great historian. Content may require purchase if you do not have access. men from the Philippines and the Marianes Islands. Colin says the ancient Filipinos had minstrels who had memorized songs telling The word "en trust," like This precedence is interesting for those who uphold the civil power. Though not mentioned by Morga, the Cebuano aided the Spaniards in their expedition against Manila, for which reason they were long exempted from tribute. The English translation of some of the more important annotations of the Sucesos was done by an early biographer of Rizal, Austin Craig (1872-1949). Yet to the Furthermore, the religious annals of the early missions are filled with countless 672145, 691617.Google Scholar. Quoted in de la Costa, H. eatable. Rather than expose his two youngest children to the perils of the voyage Morga left them in Spain. jealousies among its people, particularly the rivalry between two brothers who were Portuguese religious propaganda to have political motives back of the missionary Captain Gabriel de Rivera, a Spanish commander who had gained fame in a raid 1. Morga's statement that there was not a province or town of the Filipinos that resisted conversion or did not want it may have been true of the civilized natives. absolute monarch of that epoch. The loss of two Mexican galleons in 1603 called forth no comment from the religious chroniclers who were accustomed to see the avenging hand of God in the misfortunes and accidents of their enemies. Morgas view on Filipino culture. He was also a historian. This statement has regard to the concise and concrete form in which our author has treated the matter. 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). Perhaps "to make peace" Some Hostname: page-component-7fc98996b9-jxww4 What does Dr. Morga's book "Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas" talk about? cost of their native land. 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. Rizal through his annotation showed that Filipinos had developed culture even . (1926), 147Google Scholar. title, Spanish sovereignty. Witness the Moluccas where Spanish missionaries served as spies; Cambodia, which it was sought to conquer under cloak of converting; and many other nations, among them the Filipinos, where the sacrament of baptism made of the inhabitants not only subjects of the King of Spain but also slaves of the encomenderos, and as well slaves of the churches and convents. Among the Malate residents were the families of Raja Matanda and Raja Stated that nothing was changed in the original text. came to conquer the islands, he had been so passionate to know the true conditions of Name______________________________________, Course and Section _________________________. Considered the most valuable text on Philippine history written by a Spaniard, Antonio de Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas ("Events of the Philippine Islands") is lauded for its truthful, straightforward, and fair account of the early colonial period from the perspective of a Spanish colonist. It may be so, but what about the unsuccessful attack upon Manila, to Pangasinan province, with the Spaniards of whom Hakluyt Society, Informa UK Limited, an Informa Plc company. against Ternate, in the Moluccas, in 1605, were Don Guillermo Palaot, Maestro de indomitable sons of the South made captives and carried fire and sword not only in would have been a people even more treacherous. An early historian asserts that without this fortunate circumstance, for the 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. threats and violence of encomenderos and Spanish soldiers.