Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Rizal Course Report
Rizal Course Report
Hong Kong the Spanish Doctor Visit to Sandakan Preparation for Death
Group 8:
Visit to sandakan
Memnon Sandakan Alexander Cook Henry Walker
References
Coates, Austin; RIZAL- Filipino Nationalist & Patriot; Solidaridad Publishing House; Philippines, 1992 Zaide, Gregorio F., Zaide, Sonia M.; Jose Rizal Life, Works, and Writings of a Genius, Writer, Scientist, and National Hero Second Edition;
in Hong Kong from November 1891 to June 1892. 2 Reasons for leaving Europe: 1.) life was unbearable in Europe because of his political differences with M.H. del Pilar and other
Before sailing for Hong Kong, he notified Del Pilar that he was retiring from political arena in Spain to preserve unity among compatriots and that despite their parting of ways, he had highest regards for him.
Farewell to Europe
Farewell to Europe
October 3, 1891 2 weeks after publication of El Filibusterismo, Rizal left Ghent for Paris and bid goodbye to friends.
Melbourne
October 18 he boarded the steamer Melbourne with a letter of recommendation from Juan Luna for Manuel Camus, a compatriot living in Singapore, and 600 copies of the Fili. Rizal and the German
Melbourne
Rd.L.M. the code letters concealing his pan-Malay project. Raffles History of Java (1817) about the most modern book he seems to have read on Malaysian region.
Melbourne
William Pryer (a.k.a. Willie Pryer) one of the pioneers of North Borneo where he had been working since 1878. the founder of Sandakan (then capital of North Borneo) and its first Resident. one of the most engaging figures in
Melbourne
William Pryer (a.k.a. Willie Pryer) Served the Chartered Company which had governed North Borneo since its foundation in 1881. Rizal described him as the Stanley type.
Melbourne
Ada Pryer Willies intelligent and wellinformed wife. Rizal described her as straightforward, lively and forceful in a masculine way, going bald.
November 19, 1891 Rizal arrived in Hong Kong. (In Zaides, it was the 20th) Remedios Terrace and Caine Road in a room in one of the groups of houses which Jose Maria Basa owned, he settled
general medicine and ophthalmic surgery using in a room in a lodging house at the bottom of Duddell Street in the middle of downtown Victoria. Then he became known as
(downtown centre) he took a 1st floor consulting room, earned money and paid off his debts. In Zaides, it was said that Rizal established his residence at No. 5 DAguilar Street, No. 2 Rednaxela Terrace, where
parents to return home. On the same day, his brother-in-law, Manuel T. Hidalgo, sent him a letter relating the news about the deportation of 25 persons from Calamba, including Francisco Mercado, Neneng,
brother-in-law) arrived in Hong Kong. The deportees were to be removed to Sulu. All the deportees escaped through a well-organized plan. Paciano and Silvestre with the aim of secretly getting Rizals parents to Hong Kong,
Valeriano Weyler had left the Philippines where he was replaced by a more liberal General Eulogio Despujol. Despujol began his governorship by announcing a high-
December 23, 1891 Rizal wrote a letter to Despujol, offering his services. El Filibusterismo was entering the country. The copies were sold at anything up to 400
Tao a Tagalog translation of The Rights of Man proclaimed by the French Revolution in 1789. 2. A la Nacion Espanola (To the Spanish Nation, 1891) an appeal to Spain to right
my Countrymen) written in December 1891, explaining the Calamba agrarian situation. 4. Rizal contributed to the British daily newspaper, the Hong Kong Telegraph which was banned by Spanish censors after
Blumentritt wrote him a letter of warning, entreating him not to meddle in revolutionary agitations
A revolution has no likelihood of success unless 1.) a great portion of the army and navy should rebel, 2.) the motherland should be at war with another nation, 3.) there should be money and munitions available, and 4.) a foreign country should give its official or secret support to the insurrection. None of these
Memnon
Memnon a slow vessel plying a regular service between Sandakan and Hong Kong, whence came most of North Borneos provisions of civilized life.
Memnon
He found that the acquisition of land for development purposes was governed by definite rules and so his plan to found a colony would have to be abandoned.
Sandakan
Sandakan Assurance for freedom was in written request which surprised Pryer since these were taken for granted in British territory.
Alexander Cook
Both the Governor and the Acting Governor, L.P. Beaufort was on tour so it was received by the Acting Government Secretary, Alexander Cook, a quarrelsome individual with whom Pryer was not on particularly good terms.
Henry Walker
Henry Walker the Commissioner of Lands, who, particularly anxious to see a rice-growing population in North Borneo, which was then importing nearly all the rice it consumed, was enthusiastic about the
Henry Walker
Cook granted Rizal 5000 acres free of rent for 3 years. Rizal was addressed as Don Jose or Dr. Rizal and his degrees in Madrid University were considered impressive.
Contemporizing
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