He was a spanish administrator who served in the Ph in the late 16th century -- he served as Lieutenant-Governor, second most powerful position in the colony of the Ph in 1593. Torres-Navas, , V, 204.Google Scholar, 31. The Filipinos' favorite fish 28. Click here to navigate to respective pages. to the Spaniards by a Filipina, the wife of a soldier, and many concerned lost their lives. His extensive annotations are no less than 639 items or almost two annotations for every page, commenting even on Morgas typographical errors. simply raw meat. Lach, D. F., Asia in the Making of Europe, I, (i), (Chicago, 1965), 312.Google Scholar. been given the exclusive right to the Creator of all things or sole knowledge of His real From the first edition, Mexico, 1609. 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. One wonders why the Philippines could have a in other lands, notably in Flanders, these means were ineffective to keep the church The Sucesos is the work of an honest observer, himself a major actor in the drama of his time, a versatile bureaucrat, who knew the workings of the administration from the inside.It is also the first history of the Spanish Philippines to be written by a layman, as opposed to the religious chroniclers. For him, the native populations of the Filipinos were self-sustaining and customarily spirited -it was because of the Spanish colonization that the Philippines rich culture and tradition faded to a certain extent. 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. But after the natives were disarmed the pirates pillaged them with impunity, coming at times when they were unprotected by the government, which was the reason for many of the insurrections. 2. 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). 4. He authored the book, Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas Press (CTRL+D) Rizal and the Propaganda Movement. very straightforward historical annotations, which corrected the original book and though historically based, the annotations reflects his strong anticlerical bias. ancestors civilization which the author will call before you. Manila. He meticulously added footnotes on every understand the relish of other Europeans for beefsteak a la Tartar which to them is No one has a monopoly of the true We even do not know, if in their wars the Filipinos used to make slaves of each other, though that would not have been strange, for the chroniclers tell of captives returned to their own people. It is worthy of note that China, Japan and Cambodia at this time maintained The importation of Spanish civilization did not necessarily, and certainly not in all spheres of interest, improved the state of the Philippines. God grant that it may not be the last, though to judge by statistics the civilized islands are losing their populations at a terrible rate. cross that had no bridge other than a very narrow strip of wood over which a woman Annotations to Dr. Antonio Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (1609) (Translated by Austin Craig) As a child Jos Rizal heard from his uncle, Jos Alberto, about a ancient history of the Philippines written by a Spaniard named Antonio de Morga. 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 book also includes Filipino customs, traditions, manners, and religion during the Spanish conquest. Rizal began his work in London and completed it in Paris in 1890. 3107; III, 83, Item No. The Spaniards retained the native name for the new capital of the archipelago, a little changed, however, for the Tagalogs had called their city "Maynila.". misfortunes and accidents of their enemies. The first seven chapters discussed the political events that occurred in the colony during the first eleven Governor-Generals in the Philippines. 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. Spaniards. of those lands. The expedition which followed the Chinese corsair Li Ma-hong, after his While Japan was preparing to invade the Philippines, these islands were sending expeditions to Tonquin and Cambodia, leaving the homeland helpless even against the undisciplined hordes from the South, so obsessed were the Spaniards with the idea of making conquests. 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. were manned by many nationalities and in them went negroes, Moluccans, and even A Jesuit writer calls him a traitor though the justification 26. Rizal reluctantly chose to annotate Morga's book over some other early Spanis accounts. The discovery, conquest and conversion cost Spanish blood but still more Filipino 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. there were always more Filipinos fighting than Spaniards. the contrary was the fact among the mountain tribes. To entrust a province was then When the Spaniards came to conquer the islands, he had been so passionate to know the true conditions of the Philippines. The Buhahayen people were in their own country, and had neither offended nor declared war upon the Spaniards. In not more than five (5) sentences, write your own interpretation of Rizals statement on Cebu, which Morga calls "The City of the Most Holy Name of Jesus," was at first called "The village of San Miguel.". Their coats of mail and helmets, of which there are specimens in various European museums, attest their great advancement in this industry. age was well advanced, as the Morga history shows in its eighth chapter. personal knowledge of our ancient nationality in its last days. There was an allegation, unproven, that Morga drove out of the city a Jesuit preacher who condemned him from the pulpit, describing these entertainments as manifest robbery, adding that it had been better if the ship bringing him to Quito had been sunk on the way. The expeditions captained by Columbus and Magellan, one a Genoese Italian and the other a Portuguese, as well as those that came after them, although Spanish fleets, still were manned by many nationalities and in them went negroes, Moluccans, and even men from the Philippines and the Marianes Islands. Philippine situation during the Spanish period. Retana, who describes Morga's first wife as being as fertile as a rabbit, estimates that there were at least 16 children by the marriage. A stone house for the bishop was built before starting on the governor-general's residence. Boxer, C. R., Fidalgos in the Far East 13501770 (The Hague, 1948), 489.Google Scholar, 16. The chiefs used to wear upper garments, usually of Indian fine gauze according 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. DOI link for Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, 1609, by Antonio de Morga, Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, 1609, by Antonio de Morga book. III, f.49-v, 30 August 1608, Archives of the Indies, Seville; Retana, , 4235Google Scholar. : En casa de Geronymo Balli. The first English translation was published in London in 1868 and another English translation by Blair and Robertson was published in Cleveland in 1907. fired at his feet but he passed on as if unconscious of the bullets. Spaniards, hence he was distinguished as 4"ancient." 39. But the historian Gaspar de San Agustin states that the reason for the revolt was the governor's abusive language and his threatening the rowers. The civilization of the Pre-Spanish Filipinos in regard to the duties of life for that age was well advanced, as the Morga history shows in its eighth chapter. Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (Events in the Philippine Islands) Ito ay isang sanaysay na nagpahiwatig ng mga pangyayari sa loob at labas ng bansa mula 1493 hanggang 1603, at sa kasaysayan ng Pilipinas mabuhat 1565. the left. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. COMPARE AND CONTRAST. a plan whereby the King of Spain should become also King of Japan. The II (London, 1625), 75Google Scholar Morga's personal help for the Franciscans' Japan mission is revealed in the letter from the martyr fray Martin de la Ascension (Sucesos, chapter vi). Among the Malate residents were the families of Raja Matanda and Raja 27. Later, in 1608, Juan de Ribera was consulted by the audiencia as to the advisability of this. Annotation of Antonio Morgas Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas. government work near by. activities. . 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. Enormous indeed would the benefits which that sacred civilization brought to the archipelago have to be in order to counterbalance so heavy a-cost. the many others serving as laborers and crews of the ships. absolute monarch of that epoch. The book that describes the events inside and outside of the country from 1493 to 1603, including the history of the Philippines. The early conspiracy of the Manila and Pampangan former chiefs was revealed the table below. Other than Rizal, who made annotations of Morga's book? wrote to him and that was how their friendship began. matters of food, each is nauseated with what he is unaccustomed to or doesn't know is The first English translation was published in London in 1868 and another English . Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, 1609, by Antonio de Morga. Mania was considered an undesirable posting owing to the heat (Phelan, , Quito, 136)Google Scholar; complaints about the effect of the climate on character are typified by a later Augustinian writer who describes a fellow-friar as always good-humoured, which is miraculous in this sad land; in this warm climate all talent droops and decays; this limbo this purgatory, this bottomless well (de Castro, A.M., Osario venerable, ed. Still there are Mahometans, the Moros, in the southern islands, and negritos, igorots and other heathens yet occupy the greater part territorially of the archipelago. Quoted in de la Costa, H. Rizal was greatly impressed by Morgas work that he, himself, decided to annotate it and publish a new edition. defend their homes against a powerful invader, with superior forces, many of whom It is an encouragement to banditry thus to make easy its getting booty. Antonio de Morga: Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas. Despite the colonizers claim that they were solely responsible for refining the 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. leader was Don Agustin Sonson who had a reputation for daring and carried fire and Parry, J. H., The Spanish Seaborne Empire (London, 1966), 220Google Scholar, Cline, Howard F., The Relaciones geograficas of the Spanish Indies, 157786 in Hispanic American Historical Review, 44 (1964), 34174.CrossRefGoogle Scholar, 30. scows and coasters. had. In the attempt made by Rodriguez de Figueroa to conquer Mindanao according to his contract with the King of Spain, there was fighting along the Rio Grande with the people called the Buhahayenes. The celebration also marked the 130th year of publication of Dr. Jose Rizal's Specimens of Tagal Folklore (May 1889), Two Eastern Fables (July 1889) and his annotations of Antonio de Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, a product of his numerous visits to the British Museum. The barbarous tribes in Mindanao still have the same taste. Morga's work is based on personal experiences, or on documentation from eye-witnesses of the events described. broadest sense. Rizal through his annotation showed that Filipinos had developed culture even . Yet there were repeated shipwrecks of the vessels that carried from the Philippines wealth which encomenderos had extorted from the Filipinos, using force, or making their own laws, and, when not using these open means, cheating by the weights and measures. Later, there was talk of sabotage during these preparations two holes were bored in one of the ships one night, and it began to sink, and the sails were taken out and hidden in the woods. an admiral's turning in a report of his "discovery" of the Solomon islands though he [3][4]. Even now, though the use of steam vessels has put an end to piracy from outside, the same fatal system still is followed. 3099067. mention of the scant output of large artillery from the Manila cannon works because of The Spanish historians of the Philippines never overlook any opportunity, be it cost of their native land. have studied, I deem it necessary to quote the testimony of an illustrious Spaniard who Their prized krises and kampilans for their magnificent temper are worthy of admiration and some of them are richly damascened. The men had various positions in Manila and some were employed in government work near by. An account of the history of the Spanish colony in the Philippines during the 16th century. could not reach, and in harmony with this massiveness was all the woodwork above and A new edition of First Series 39. the "conqueror's" intelligent right arm and the hero of the "conquest." Morga's statement that there was not a province or town of the Filipinos that [3][4], Antonio de Morga's Sucesos De Las Islas Filipinas has been recognized as a first-hand account of Spanish colonial venture in Asia during the 16th century. Torres-Navas, , V, 132.Google Scholar, 22. But in our day it has been more than a century since the natives of the latter two countries have come here. Some Spanish writers say that the Japanese volunteers and the Filipinos showed themselves cruel in slaughtering the Chinese refugees. Morga's expression that the Spaniards "brought war to the gates of the Filipinos" If discovery and occupation justify annexation, then Borneo ought to belong to Spain. They declined, degrading themselves in their own eyes, they become ashamed of what was their own; they began to admire and praise whatever was foreign and incomprehensible, their spirit was damaged and it surrendered.. Islands. Hakluyt Society. 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. Cebu, Panay, Luzon Mindoro and some others cannot be said to have 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. They had with them 400 Tagalogs and Pampangans. I say "by the inhabitants of the South" because earlier there had been other acts of piracy, the earliest being that of Magellan's expedition when it seized the shipping of friendly islands and even of those whom they did not know, extorting for them heavy ransoms. To learn more about our eBooks, visit the links below: An account of the history of the Spanish colony in the Philippines during the 16th century. Campo, and Captains Francisco Palaot, Juan Lit, Luis Lont, and Agustin Lont. This was done by recreating the pre-Hispanic Philippine past, which knocked on the native's pride. collected to pay the military, expenses of the employees, diplomatic agents, According to other historians it was in 1570 that Manila was burned, and with it a great plant for manufacturing artillery. Torres-Navas, , IV, 94, No. celebrated Silonga, later distinguished for many deeds in raids on the Bisayas and . undergone important failures in both his military and political capacities but he is now What would Japan have been now had not its emperors uprooted Catholicism? not once a year merely but at times repeating their raids five and six times in a single the Philippines. The Jesuit, Father Alonso Sanchez, who visited the papal court at Rome and the Spanish King at Madrid, had a mission much like that of deputies now, but of even greater importance since he came to be a sort of counsellor or representative to the absolute monarch of that epoch.