SECOND
TRAVEL OF
RIZAL
WEEK 8
UNIT 3
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
1.Analyze the conflict that took place among the
Illustrados in an attempt to explain the reasons for
all the misunderstanding; and
2.Evaluate what the propaganda movement is and
what it stood for.
OVERVIEW
01 FROM THE
LAST TOPIC
03 UNITED STATES
02 JAPAN 04 LONDON
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JAPAN
SECOND TRAVEL
02
JAPAN EXPERIENCE
• ADVISED BY GOVERNOR
GENERAL, FAMILY AND SOME
CLOSE FRIENDS.
• RIZAL DECIDED TO LEAVE
THE COUNTRY
• SAILED FROM HONGKONG TO
YOKOHAMA
• FEBRUARY 22, 1888
• OCEANIC
• STAYED AT GRAND HOTEL IN
YOKOHAMA
JAPAN EXPERIENCE
JUAN PEREZ Y CABALLERO
• Spanish Attaché
• Visited Rizal at his
Hotel and later
invited him to live
at Spanish
Legation.
JAPAN EXPERIENCE
RIZAL ACCEPTED THE
INVITATION
Rizal prompted a reason
(1) to show that he is not afraid of being
watched as he had nothing to hide and
(2) to save more expenses for the hotel
accommodations.
JAPAN EXPERIENCE
Seiko Usui (0-Sei-San)
• Oftentimes passed by the gate of the
Legation in Tokyo
• Served as Guide, Interpreter, and
tutor
• Improved the knowledge of Rizal in
Japanese language.
JAPAN EXPERIENCE
Rizal wrote to his diary about his intense his love and
affection towards her:
"Your image lives in my memory; and undoubtedly, I am always
thinking of you. Your name lives in the sight of my lips, your
image accompanies and animates all my thoughts"
JAPAN EXPERIENCE
• After his journey in Japan Rizal
decided to visit United States
• Steamer “Belgic” { April 13, 1888 }
Tetcho Suehiro
• A fighting Japanese journalist, novelist
and a champion of human rights
• Accompanied by Rizal to San
Francisco until their arrival in London
on December 1, 1888
• He admire Rizal for his patriotism and
magnificent talent.
03 RIZAL IN
AMERICA
1888
SECOND TRAVEL ABROAD
-Rizal first saw America on April 28, 1888.
- His arrival in this great country was marred by racial prejudice.
- He saw the discriminatory treatment of the Chinese and Negros
by white American.
ARRIVAL IN SAN FRANCISCO
- The streamer Belgic docked at San Francisco on April 28, 1888
-American health authorities did not let the passengers to land for a
week due to the rumored Cholera epidemic.
-Rizal protested with other passengers to unjustifiable actions of
American authorities.
-He was discovered that the epidemic issue was motivated by
politics and the ship was carrying 643 Chinese coolies.
- After a week, Rizal, together with the first class passengers were
permitted to land. But the Japanese and Chinese and passengers
belong to the second and third class remained aboard.
RIZAL IN SAN FRANSISCO
-May 4, 1888- The day he was permitted to go ashore and registered at the Palace Hotel.
-May 4 to 6 – Rizal stayed in San Francisco.
-May 6, 1888 –it was Sunday Rizal left San Francisco Bay, by ferry boat.
-May 7 to 13, Rizal wrote in his diary the beautiful memories from Nevada, Chicago until he reached Albany
RIZAL IN NEW YORK
• May 13, 1888, it was Sunday morning when Rizal reached New York. He stayed three days
in this city which he called “ BIG TOWN”
• May 16, 1888, Rizal left New York for Liverpool on board the City of Rome.
• Rizal saw the Statue of Liberty on Bedloe Island.
RIZAL’S IMPRESSION OF AMERICA
The good impression were:
-the material of the country as shown in the great cities, huge farms, flourishing industries, and
busy factories;
-The drive and energy of the American people;
- The natural beauty of the land;
- The high standard of living;
- The opportunities for better life offered to poor immigrants.
The bad impression were:
-America was lack of racial equality.
• 1890- two years after Rizal’s visited to the United States, Jose Alejandro, who was then studying
engineering in Belguim, roomed with him.
• Rizal’s impression to America “ is the land par excellence of freedom but only for the whites.
Rizal’s London Experience
• Jose Rizal aboard “ City of Rome” and reached Queenstown in Ireland on May
24, 1888.
• He embarked on a ferry boat going to Liverpool.
• He visited London to learn English language and to annotate the book of Antonio
de Morga, the Las Islas Filipinas, also known as the History of Philippine Island.
• May 5, 1888, he stopped at the Grand Hotel Midland and then stayed for a week
at house in Bareford and transferred in a private home owned by Becket family.
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LONDON
SECOND TRAVEL
•Rizal devoted his time by
annotating the book of Dr. Morga
and rectified important points that
helps us know and understand our
history.
•Rizal’s annotation was later
published in Paris on 1890.
Rizal wrote in the prologue of his work that:
"If the book succeeded in awakening the consciousness of our past, which have been erased from our
memories and if it is able to rectify the falsehood and calumny that had been committed, then I shall
feel that I have not labored in vain.”
•Rizal’s brother-in-law, Manuel R. Hidalgo was deported by order of the Superior
Government in the town of Tagbilaran, Bohol in the Visayas because allegedly, he was
filibuster, a representative of Jose Rizal and was spreading anti-religious and impious ideas.
•Hidalgo believed that the accusations against him were baseless and illogical.
•March 1889, Rizal decided to go in Paris, France and stayed for eleven months
•Just in time for the opening of the International Exposition in Paris which was intended to
commemorate the French Independence.
• January 28, 1890, Rizal moved again in
Brussels, Belgium with his uncle Jose Alberto
• They stayed in a rented house in #38 Rue
Phillipe Champagne owned by the Jacoby
sisters.
• His intentions were :
-to write his second novel entitled El
Filibusterismo
- to assist in a local clinic
- to make a living
- to attend to his correspondence with his
family and fellow propagandists
-to write articles for La Solidaridad.
• Rizal also experienced the persecution of his family and
town mates back in Calamba.
• His brother Paciano informed him of the petition to evict
the tenants filed before the Justice of the Peace from.
• Paciano told him that they were hoping for a favorable
judgment but the case can only be done in the Supreme
Court in Spain.
• He was a bit hesitant to attain justice.
•Rizal was given an account of how his family and town mates suffered
from a letter by his sister Lucia. The letter reads:
"Concerning our town, perhaps your heart would ache because of the
blindness of our compatriot. You can then imagine what would happen.
When the lay brothers go out riding, the Lieutenant of the Civil
Guard sits on the little bench of the carriage and the Acting
Lieutenant goes over the curate. When the lay brothers have some
orders for the Hacienda, they sent out the Captain"
• June 2, 1890 Saturnina’s husband Manuel was deported again and was
arrested while he was eating with his family on Christmas day.
• The last letter received by Rizal before came from his brother-in-law
Silvestre Ubaldo.
• The latter sent paper on the eviction issued by the manager of the
Calamba Estate against his family.
THANK
YOU !!!
