Frando, Ranz Kenneth
BSN 4-B
Gec 09
Rizal’s View
 This fish that Morga mentions, that
cannot be good until it begins to rot, is
bagoong [salted and fermented fish or
shrimp paste used as a sauce in Filipino
cuisine] and those who have eaten it and
tasted it know that it neither is nor should
be rotten (Rizal 1890, 264).
 Christianity was a weapon for facilitating
the political and economic subjugation of
the native.
 Rizal noticed all Morga’s mistakes.
Morga misspelled many native names of
places, flora and fauna, and other social
classes which Rizal corrected.
 Rizal emphasized that native women,
unlike their European counterparts, never
lost their noble titles. It was the groom
who gave dowry to the parents because
they going to lost their precious daughter.
 Rizal clarified that Morga must have
meant sinamay. Which was woven from
abaca thread that comes from the banana
trunks not from the leaves.
Morga’s View
 Their daily fare is composed of: lice
crushed in wooden pillars and when
cooked is called morisqueta (this is the
staple throughout the land); cooked fish
which they have in a b un m pork,
venieon, mountain buffaloes which they
call carabaos, beef and fish which they
know is best when it has started to mt and
stink (Retana 1909,174).
 By the Christian religion, Dr. Morga
appears to mean the Roman Catholic
which by fire and sword he would
preserve in its purity in the Philippines.
Nevertheless, in other lands, notably in
Flanders, these means were in effective to
keep the church unchanged, or to
maintain its supremacy, or even to hold
its subjects.
 In Morga’s time, the Philippines exported
silk to Japan whence now comes the best
quality of that merchandise.
 Morga’s remark that the Filipinos like
fish better when it is commencing to turn
bad is another of those prejudices which
Spaniards like all other nations have.
 Morga said that cotton was grown
extensively in practically all the islands
which the natives sold as thread and
woven fabrics to Chinese and other
foreign merchants.