CHAPTER 13:

FROM CALAMBA
TO EUROPE FOR
THE SECOND
TIME
RIZAL IN HONGKONG
[February 8, 1888]
Rizal was met by,

JOSE MARIA BALBINO

BASA MAURICIO
 Rizal’s observation about
Hong Kong:
The celebration of the Chinese New
Year was quite very noisy due to the
continuous explosion of firecrackers on
the streets.
Chinese theaters are usually animated
due to the different percussion
instruments used by the participants, in
addition to the noise created by the
audience.
 The Lauriat party, wherein the guests
were served as variety of dishes, shows
lavishness and hospitality among the
Chinese.
 The Dominican Order, the richest
religious order in Hong Kong, had
millions of dollars deposited in
various banks earning very high
interests.
 The graveyards for Catholics,
Protestants, and Muslims were well
maintained.
On February 22, 1888, Rizal left Hong
Kong on board the vessel SS Oceania.
RIZAL IN JAPAN
[FEBRUARY 28, 188]
-He entered the country through,

YOKOHAMA TOKYO HOTEL

Rizal’s favorable impression of Japan:

 The scenic beauty of the country;

 The cleanliness, politeness, and industry of the people;
 The picturesque dress and simple charm of the Japanese
women;
 The existence of few thieves in Japan; and
 The beggars rarely seen the streets of the city.

Rizal was disgusted seeing Japanese men pulling the kuruma or

rickshaw like horses. The kuruma was the popular mode of
transportation in Japan during that time.
 Nonetheless, Rizal
was disgusted seeing
Japanese men
pulling the kuruma
or rickshaw like
horses.

-The kuruma was

the popular mode of
transportation in
KURUMA Japan during that
time.
-ROMANCE WITH 0-SEI-SAN

There was even time when O Sei San invited

Rizal to a chan-no-yu [Tea Ceremony], a
social tradition of the Japanese people,
signifying harmony, purity, tranquility and
reverence.

O-Sei-San loved Rizal sincerely and Rizal

responded by his sincere affection. They
spent joyful and unforgettable days visiting
temples, shrines, and castles and even
watches Kabuki plays.
 RIZAL IN UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA
[April 28, 1888]
 Good Impression of Rizal in USA:
 The material progress of the
country;
 The drive and the energy of
the American people;
 The natural beauty of the land;
 The high standard of living;
and
 The opportunities for better
life offered to poor
immigrants.
Negative Impression of Rizal in USA:
 Non-existence of true civil
liberty, as a Negro cannot marry
an American and vice-versa;
 The existence of racial
prejudice, as shown in their
hatred of the Chinese, Japanese,
and Negroes, and
 The valuing of money over
human life.
On May 16, 1888, Rizal left New
York for Liverpool, England on
board the vessel City of Rome.
RIZAL IN LONDON
[May 24, 1888]

He arrived at LIVERPOOL
Rizal’s three reasons to his second home:

To improve his knowledge of the English

language;
To study and annotate Morga’s Sucesos de las
Islas Filipinas; and
To carry on his fight against Spanish tyranny
safely.
Three basically purposes for Rizal’s
annotation of the Sucesos:

To awaken the consciousness of the Filipinos

of their glorious or dignified ways of past;
To correct what has been distorted and
falsified about the Philippines prior to
Spanish conquest; and
To prove that the Filipinos were civilized,
even before the coming of the Spaniards.
Three kinds of Spanish
delusions about the
Philippines:
• That the Filipinos were an
inferior race;
• That the Filipinos were not
ready for parliamentary
representation and other
reforms; and
• That denial of equal rights
can be compensated by
strict dispensation of justice
Three main propositions in
Rizal’s new edition of
Morga’s Sucecos,
That the people of the
Philippines had a culture of their
own before the coming of the
Spaniards;
That the Filipinos were
decimated, demoralized,
exploited and ruined by Spanish
colonization;
The present state of the
Philippines was not necessarily
superior to its past.
 The Officers of this patriotic society were the
following;

President…………………… Galiciano Apacible

Vice President……………… Graciano Lopez-Jaena
Secretary…………………… Manuel Sta. Maria
Treasurer…………………… Mariano Ponce
Accountant…………………. Jose Ma. Panganiban
 On February 15, 1889, Rizal was also informed about the
founding of the organ of the Propaganda Movement by Graciano
Lopez- Jaena. This came to be called La Solidaridad. The aims of
this fortnightly organ of Philippine opinion were the following;

 To work peacefully for political and social reforms;

 To portray the deplorable conditions of the Philippines for Spain to

remedy them;

 To oppose the evil forces of reaction and medievalism;

 To advocate liberal ideas and progress; and

 To champion the legitimate aspirations of the Filipino people to life,

democracy, and happiness.