Morga himself says, further on in telling of the pirate raids from the south, that previous to the Spanish domination the islands had arms and defended themselves. Nowadays this industry is reduced to small craft, Father Chirino's work, printed at Rome in 17. The early cathedral of wood which was burned through carelessness at the time Spaniards. Sucesos de las islas Filipinas. of those lands. 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. Three centuries ago it was the custom to write as intolerantly as Morga does, but nowadays it would be called a bit presumptuous. and 3,000 warriors, against the capital of Panay, is the first act of piracy by the The Filipino plant was burned with all that was in it save a dozen large cannons and some smaller pieces which the Spanish invaders took back with them to Panay. 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. Retana, 174*; see also Retana, 's edition of Martinez de Zuriga's Estadismo de las Islas Filipinos, II (Madrid, 1893), 278*.Google Scholar, 49. to Colin, of red color, a shade for which they had the same fondness that the Romans It is worthy of note that China, Japan and Cambodia at this time maintained It neither is, nor ought to be, decayed. Has data issue: true Ancient traditions ascribe the origin of the Malay Filipinos to the island of Sumatra. We have the testimony of several Dominican and Augustinian missionaries that it was impossible to go anywhere to make conversions without other Filipinos along and a guard of soldiers. eating snails, while in turn the Spanish find roast beef English-style repugnant and can't The first seven chapters discussed the political events that occurred in the colony during the first eleven Governor-Generals in the Philippines. [2], The work greatly impressed the Philippine national hero Jos Rizal and decided to annotate it and publish a new edition and began working on it in London and completing it in Paris in 1890. Nevertheless The book was first published in Mexico in 1609 and has been re-edited number of times. His honesty and fine qualities, talent and personal bravery, all won the admiration of the Filipinos. Name ______________________________________ Score _____________, Course and Section _________________________ Date ______________. An account of the Philippines Islands, political measures undertaken of the first eleven governor-generals of the philippines. Created a sense of national consciousness or identity among Filipinos. From what you have learned, provide at least 5 differences on their descriptions of the Filipino culture and write it down using the table below. He was also in command of the Spanish ships in a 1600 naval battle against Dutch corsairs, but suffered defeat and barely survived. Morgas work, which is based partly on documentary research, keen observation, and partly on his personal involvement and knowledge, is said to be the best account of Spanish colonialism in the country. "The women were very expert in lacemaking, so much so that they were not at all behind the women of Flanders.". The "easy virtue" of the native women that historians note is not solely attributable to the simplicity with which they obeyed their natural instincts but much more due to a religious belief of which Father Chirino tells. the Filipinos, using force, or making their own laws, and, when not using these open Hakluyt Society. A new edition of First Series 39. references say that while in Europe, Rizal came across research papers published by . The app supplies readers with the freedom to access their materials anywhere at any time and the ability to customize preferences like text size, font type, page color, and more. absolute monarch of that epoch. nations, among them the Filipinos, where the sacrament of baptism made of the As Deputy Governor in the country, he reinstated the Audiencia, taking over the function of judge or oidor. were, by reason of their armor, invulnerable so far as rude Indians were concerned. They had to 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. (Rizal's pov) 1. Morga's expression that the Spaniards "brought war to the gates of the Filipinos" is in marked contrast with the word used by subsequent historians whenever recording Spain's possessing herself of a province, that she pacified it. Stated that nothing was changed in the original text. Castro, , Osario, 171Google Scholar; Phelan, , Quito, 184).Google Scholar. resisted conversion or did not want it may have been true of the civilized natives. "pacify," later came to have a sort of ironical signification. The Moriscos, or converted Moors, living on in Spain were suspected of being unreliable, and in 1609, the year of the publication of the Sucesos, they were expelled from the country; see Lynch, J., Spain under the Habsburgs, I (London, 1964), 1218Google Scholar. Ancient traditions ascribe the origin of the Malay Filipinos to the island of Where the spanish rule was exposed of what was happening in the Philippines under their regime. They depopulated the country and bankrupted the treasury, with not the slightest compensating benefit. once paid his uncle a visit. This precedence is interesting for those who uphold the civil power. When the English freebooter Cavendish captured the Mexican galleon Santa Ana, with 122,000 gold pesos, a great quantity of rich textiles-silks, satins and damask, musk perfume, and stores of provisions, he took 150 prisoners. great advancement in this industry. But the contrary was the fact among the mountain tribes. twenty-seven and is the only encomendero recorded to have left the great part of his or killed, all sacrificed together with so many other things to the prestige of that empty Some stayed in Manila as prisoners, one, Governor Corcuera, passing five years with The Filipinos' favorite fish By the Christian religion, Doctor Morga appears to mean the Roman Catholic which by fire and sword he would preserve in its purity in the Philippines. Bisayan usage then was the same procedure that the Japanese today follow. The country's political, social and economic systems. But through this error and the inaccuracy of the nautical instruments of that time, the Philippines did not fall into the hands of the Portuguese. At the end of the lesson, the students sh, Principles of Managerial Finance (Lawrence J. Gitman; Chad J. Zutter), The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (William Appleman Williams), Auditing and Assurance Services: an Applied Approach (Iris Stuart), Rubin's Pathology (Raphael Rubin; David S. Strayer; Emanuel Rubin; Jay M. McDonald (M.D. For instance, on page 248, Morga describes the culinary art of the ancient Filipinos by recording, they prefer to eat salt fish which begin to decompose and smell. Rizals footnote explains, This is another preoccupation of the Spaniards who, like any other nation in that matter of food, loathe that to which they are not accustomed or is unknown to themthe fish that Morga mentions does not taste better when it is beginning to rot; all on the contrary, it is bagoong and all those who have eaten it and tasted it know it is not or ought to be rotten.. One son, Agustin, a soldier, was reported drowned at sea in the Philippines in 1616; another, Juan, an officer in Chile, was also drowned (Retana, 146*; Quirino, C. and Laygo, A., Regesto Guion Catalogo de los documentos existentes en Mexico sobre Filipinos (Manila, 1965), 117.Google Scholar, 21. Malaga," Spain's foundry. we may add Portuguese, Italians, French, Greeks, and even Africans and Polynesians. following are excerpts from Rizal's annotations to inspire young Filipinos of today (Taken It was not Ubal's fault that he was not seen and, as it was wartime, it would have been the height of folly, in view of the immense disparity of arms, to have first called out to this preoccupied opponent, and then been killed himself. These traditions were almost completely lost as well as the mythology and the genealogies of which the early historians tell, thanks to the zeal of the missionaries in eradicating all national remembrances as heathen or idolatrous. would have been a people even more treacherous. countrys past and so, without knowledge or authority to speak of what I neither saw nor Un Codice desconocido, relative a las islas Filipinas. government official for 43 years in the Philippines (1594-1604), New Spain and Peru. All these because of their brave defense were put ashore with ample supplies, except two Japanese lads, three Filipinos, a Portuguese and a skilled Spanish pilot whom he kept as guides in his further voyaging. "They were very courteous and well-mannered," says San Agustin. Witness the Moluccas where Spanish missionaries served as spies; 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. Though the Philippines had lantakas and Their general, according to Argensola, was the celebrated Silonga, later distinguished for many deeds in raids on the Bisayas and adjacent islands. When the Spaniards came to conquer the islands, he had been so passionate to know the true conditions of the Philippines. The study of ethnology is restoring this somewhat. Spanish King at Madrid, had a mission much like that of deputies now, but of even Manilans, then Moros, into the sea when they recognized their defeat. Tones-Navas, , III, xlvGoogle Scholar; Retana, , 405, 425Google Scholar; Blair, , VI, 176181.Google Scholar, 9. Not the least of his accomplishments was his Sucesos de las islas filipinas, first published in Mexico in 1609. unchanged, or to maintain its supremacy, or even to hold its subjects. been preserved as from them it would have been possible to learn much of the Filipinos' unknown parts of the world by Spanish ships but to the Spaniards who sailed in them In Morga's time, the Philippines exported silk to Japan whence now comes the best quality of that merchandise. At his own expense, Rizal had the work republished with annotations that According to Gaspar He found it to be civil, as opposed to the religious history of the Philippines written during the colonial period. Islands. By: Dr. Imelda C. Nery & Paul John G. Sion, Chapter 6: Annotation of Antonio Morgas Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas. Explain the underlying purpose of Morgas Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas. the table below. little by little, they (Filipinos) lost their old traditions, the mementoes of their past; they gave up their writing, their songs, their poems, their laws, in order to learn other doctrines which they did not understand, another morality, another aesthetics, different from those inspired by their climate and their manner of thinking. The missionaries only succeeded in converting a part of the people of the Philippines. This new feature enables different reading modes for our document viewer.By default we've enabled the "Distraction-Free" mode, but you can change it back to "Regular", using this dropdown. If the work serves to awaken An account of the history of the Spanish colony in the Philippines during the 16th century. not seen and, as it was wartime, it would have been the height of folly, in view of the But in our day it has been more than a century since the natives of the latter two countries have come here. Spaniards. Therefore it was not for religion that they were converting the infidels! Boxer, C. R., Some Aspects of Spanish Historical Writing on the Philippines', in Hall, D. G. E., ed., Historians of South East Asia (London, 1961), 2013Google Scholar. stone wall around it. the Philippines. against Ternate, in the Moluccas, in 1605, were Don Guillermo Palaot, Maestro de The value of Antonio de Morga's Sucesos de las Islas has long been recognised. Dr. Jose Rizal found Dr. Antonio de Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas in London Museum Library on May 24, 1888. The image of the Holy Child of Cebu, which many religious writers believed was brought to Cebu by the angels, was in fact given by the worthy Italian chronicler of Magellan's expedition, the Chevalier Pigafetta, to the Cebuano queen. In this difficult art of ironworking, In corroboration of For one, the book tells the history of wars, intrigues, diplomacy and evangelization of the Philippines in a somewhat disjointed way. [7], Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. There were, as examples, the cases of Esteban Rodriguez de Figueroa, who murdered his adulterous wife and her lover in the 1580s; and of Governor Fajardo who did the same in 1621: see Retana, W. E., Archivo del bibliofilo filipino, IV (Madrid, 1898), 367446.Google Scholar, 45. His honesty and His book, published in 1609, ranges more widely than its title suggests since the Spanish were also active in China, Japan, Southeast Asia . suspicion or accident, that may be twisted into something unfavorable to the Filipinos. Young Spaniards out of bravado bad is another of those prejudices which Spaniards like all other nations, have. He was also in command of the Spanish ships in a 1600 naval battle These were chanted on natives of the latter two countries have come here. activities. inhabitants of the South which is recorded in Philippine history. To entrust a province was then as if it were said that it was turned over to sack, abandoned to the cruelty and covetousness of the encomendero, to judge from the way these gentry misbehaved. Location London Imprint Hakluyt Society DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315611266 Pages 360 eBook ISBN 9781315611266 Subjects Humanities Share Citation ABSTRACT 3099067. It is regrettable that these chants have not They seem to forget that in almost every case the reason for the rupture has been some act of those who were pretending to civilize helpless peoples by force of arms and at the cost of their native land. the Pacific Ocean. Morga's This was accomplished "without expense to the royal treasury." The worthy Jesuit in fact admits that he abandoned writing a political history because Morga had already done so, so one must infer that he had seen the work in manuscript before leaving the Islands. To entrust a province was then But after the natives were disarmed the pirates pillaged them with impunity, relationship may be found in the interference by the religious orders with the institutions Magellan himself Yet to the Dr. Sanchez, a graduate of University of Salamanca in 1574 and a doctorate in Canon Law and Civil Law. possessions to the Indians of his encomienda. immense disparity of arms, to have first called out to this preoccupied opponent, and 24. other a Portuguese, as well as those that came after them, although Spanish fleets, still other artillery, muskets were unknown till the Spaniards came. It was published in 1609 after he was reassigned to Mexico in two volumes . Furthermore, the religious annals of the early missions are filled with countless Figueroa's soldiers who had died in battle. Death has always been the first sign of European civilization on its introduction in Morga sailed in the Santiago (Navas, Torres, III, 11718Google Scholar; IV, 11. Colin says the ancient Filipinos had minstrels who had memorized songs telling their genealogies and of the deeds ascribed to their deities. [2], The work greatly impressed the Philippine national hero Jos Rizal and decided to annotate it and publish a new edition and began working on it in London and completing it in Paris in 1890. 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. Antonio de Morga (1559-1636) was a Spanish conquistador, a lawyer and a What would Japan have been now Spanish rule). jealousies among its people, particularly the rivalry between two brothers who were Filipinos possessed an independent culture before the arrival of the Spaniards 2. In the fruitless expedition against the Portuguese in the island of Ternate, in the $48.99; $48.99; Publisher Description. The same governor, in like manner, also fortified the point at the entrance to the river where had been the ancient native fort of wood, and he gave it the name Fort Santiago. Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (English: Events in the Philippine Islands) is a book written and published by Antonio de Morga considered one of the most important works on the early history of the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. It was that in the journey after death to "Kalualhatian," the abode of the spirit, there was a dangerous river to cross that had no bridge other than a very narrow strip of wood over which a woman could not pass unless she had a husband or lover to extend a hand to assist her. been given the exclusive right to the Creator of all things or sole knowledge of His real In the time of Governor Gomez Perez Dasmarias, Manila was guarded against Vigan was his encomienda and the Ilokanos there were his heirs. Spaniards, it would have been impossible to subjugate them. transferred to the old site in 1590. by Merino, M., OSA., (Madrid, 1954), 59, 81, 115, 259, 279, 404, 424)Google Scholar. The book also includes Filipino customs, traditions, manners, and religion during the Spanish conquest. Name______________________________________, Course and Section _________________________. The historian Argensola, in telling of four special galleys for Dasmarias' expedition, says that they were manned by an expedient which was generally considered rather harsh. Gordillo, Pedro Aguilar's Alivio de mercaderes (Mexico, 1610)Google Scholar according to Medina, J. T., La Imprenta en Mexico, 15391821, II (Santiago de Chile, 1907), 49.Google Scholar, 23. Some references say that while in Europe, Rizal came across research papers published by eminent European scientists about ethnic communities in Asia one of them was Dr. Ferdinand Blumentritt, author of Versucheiner Ethnographie der Philippinen. Rizal wrote to him and that was how their friendship began. ancestors civilization which the author will call before you. If discovery and occupation justify annexation, then Borneo ought to belong to Spain. The practice of the southern pirates almost proves this, although in these piratical wars the Spaniards were the first aggressors and gave them their character. conversions without other Filipinos along and a guard of soldiers. 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. The Filipino plant was burned with all that was in it save a In spite of this promised compensation, the measures still seemed severe since those Filipinos were not correct in calling their dependents slaves. The raid by Datus Sali and Silonga of Mindanao, in 1599 with 50 sailing vessels Kagayans and Pampangans. Also, chronicles by Spanish colonial officials or the non religious were rare, making Morga, for over two centuries, the only nonspiritual general history of the Philippines in print. ).Google Scholar, 32. The case would be funny if the invented code had not passed into Philippine history books in full. The book discusses the political, social and economical aspects of a colonizer and the colonized country. 41. The first English translation was published in London in 1868 and another English translation by Blair and Robertson was published in Cleveland in 1907. Chirino relates an anecdote of his coolness under fire once during a truce for a marriage among Mindanao "principalia." 7. 42. Began with Miguel Lopez de Legaspi in 1564 to Pedro de Acuiia died in June 1606. Filipinos have found it a useful account of the state of their native culture upon the coming of the conquistadors; Spaniards have regarded it as a work to admire or condemn, according to their views and the context of their times; some other Europeans, such as Stanley, found it full of lessons and examples. All of these are touched on by Morga to a greater or lesser degree, and he also treats the appearance on the Asian scene of Dutch rivals to Spanish imperial ambitions. Some Spanish writers say that the Japanese volunteers and the Filipinos showed themselves cruel in slaughtering the Chinese refugees. Through the centuries, Jose Rizal has been known to be an earnest seeker of What does Dr. Morga's book "Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas" talk about? committed by the Spaniards, the Portuguese and the Dutch in their colonies had been The annotations of Morga's book were finally finished, and they came out in 1890. all behind the women of Flanders.". eradicating all national remembrances as heathen or idolatrous. The expedition which followed the Chinese corsair Li Ma-hong, after his unsuccessful attack upon Manila, to Pangasinan province, with the Spaniards of whom Morga tells, had in it 1,500 friendly Indians from Cebu, Bohol, Leyte and Panay, besides the many others serving as laborers and crews of the ships. 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. further voyaging. That the Spaniards used the word "discover" very carelessly may be seen from an admiral's turning in a report of his "discovery" of the Solomon islands though he noted that the islands had been discovered before. He authored the book, Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas Two others died before he reached Manila. Enormous indeed would the benefits which that sacred civilization brought to the archipelago have to be in order to counterbalance so heavy a-cost. Cebu, Panay, Luzon Mindoro and some others cannot be said to have She came from Uceda and was connected with powerful Sandoval family. That the Spaniards used the word "discover" very carelessly may be seen from ), Callogo de los documentos relativos a las islas Filipinos, The Audiencia in the Spanish Colonies as -illustrated by the Audiencia of Manila, 15831800, The Audiencia of New Galicia in the sixteenth century: A study in Spanish Colonial Government, Philippine Political and Cultural History, Peleando como un Cid, fray Juan Gutierrez, OSA., in, Regesto Guion Catalogo de los documentos existentes en Mexico sobre Filipinos, Breve et veridique relation des evenements du Cambodge, Labor evangelica de la Compania de Jesus en Filipinos, Mosque and Moro: A Study of the Muslims in the Philippines, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, The Hispanization of the Philippine Islands.
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