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), 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. Retana, 174*; see also Retana, 's edition of Martinez de Zuriga's Estadismo de las Islas Filipinos, II (Madrid, 1893), 278*.Google Scholar, 49. These were chanted on voyages in cadence with the rowing, or at festivals,. collected to pay the military, expenses of the employees, diplomatic agents, The rest of their artillery equipment had been thrown by the Manilans, then Moros, into the sea when they recognized their defeat. Austin Craig, an early biographer of Rizal, translated some of the more important There were similar complaints from Portuguese Asia: see the Viceroy of India's report of 1630 in Boletim da Filmoteca Ultramarina Portuguese No. Este paraso de aguas cristalinas se encuentra en el . Green, O. H., Spain and the Western Tradition, III (Madison, 1965), 31Google Scholar; See also the Prologo and Discurse apologetico of the brothers Pinelo in the Epitome de la biblioteca oriental i occidental (Madrid, 1629).Google Scholar, 29. 28. 14. 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. He replied that it was desirable that they should leave, but it was to be arranged gently lest the Emperor be driven to war. That established in 1584 was in Lamayan, that is, Santa Ana now, and was [3][4]. He was also in command of the Spanish ships in a 1600 naval battle Filipinos were self-sustaining and customarily spirited - it was because of the Spanish The Filipino chiefs who at their own expense went with the Spanish expedition Here would seem to be the origin of the antinganting of the modern tulisanes, which are also of a religious character. It was that in the journey From the earliest Spanish days ships were built in the islands, which might be there were always more Filipinos fighting than Spaniards. adjacent islands. 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. understand the relish of other Europeans for beefsteak a la Tartar which to them is Vigan was his encomienda and the Ilokanos there were his heirs. Morga's main source for his account of the affair was probably the Relacion of Diego de Guevara, O.E.S.A. stone wall around it. Antonio de Morga (1559-1636) was a Spanish conquistador, a lawyer and a government official for 43 years in the Philippines (1594-1604), New Spain and Peru. It neither is, nor ought to be, decayed. Published online by Cambridge University Press: those whom they did not know, extorting for them heavy ransoms. 1516 (1933), 502529; Ano V, Num. jealousies among its people, particularly the rivalry between two brothers who were 15. When Morga says that the lands were "entrusted" (given as encomiendas) to those who had "pacified" them, he means "divided up among." on Borneo and the Malacca coast, was the first envoy from the Philippines to take up simple savages the act had nothing wrong in it but was done with the same naturalness The Buhahayen people were in their own country, and had neither offended nor declared war upon the Spaniards. An account of the history of the Spanish colony in the Philippines during the 16th century. This book narrates observations about the Filipinos and the Philippines from the perspective of the Spaniards. Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas. Cebu, which Morga calls "The City of the Most Holy Name of Jesus," was at first called "The village of San Miguel.". Still there are Mahometans, the Moros, in the southern islands, and negritos, igorots and other heathens yet occupy the greater part territorially of the archipelago. Rizal began his work in London and completed it in Paris in 1890. Of the government of Don Francisco Tello 7. There were, moreover, men in the Philippines who had fought at Lepanto and whose presence in Asia may well have seemed symbolic (Retana, 79*; Castro, Osario, 33; Lorenzo Perez, OMF., Pr. misfortunes and accidents of their enemies. bad is another of those prejudices which Spaniards like all other nations, have. The expeditions captained by Columbus and Magellan, one a Genoese Italian and the other a Portuguese, as well as those that came after them, although Spanish fleets, still were manned by many nationalities and in them went negroes, Moluccans, and even men from the Philippines and the Marianes Islands. Morga says that the 250 Chinese oarsmen who manned Governor Dasmarias' swift galley were under pay and had the special favor of not being chained to their benches. The same mistake was made with reference to the other early events still wrongly commemorated, like San Andres' day for the repulse of the Chinese corsair Li Ma-hong. Morga has evidently confused the pacific coming of Legaspi with the attack of Goiti and Salcedo, as to date. narrates observations about the Filipinos and the Philippines from the perspective of the to his contract with the King of Spain, there was fighting along the Rio Grande with the The cannon foundry mentioned by Morga as in the walled city was probably on the site of the Tagalog one which was destroyed by fire on the first coming of the Spaniards. Figueroa's soldiers who had died in battle. abused their hospitality and if behind the name Religion had not lurked the unnamed Of the government of Don Pedro de Acuiia 8. : En casa de Geronymo Balli. If the work serves to awaken In Morga's time, the Philippines exported silk to Japan whence now comes the best quality of that merchandise. and helmets, of which there are specimens in various European museums, attest their Merga's enemies made an attempt to blame him for the rising (Retana, 11*-15). formal record of the earliest days of the Philippines as a Spanish colony. inaugurated his arrival in the Marianes islands by burning more than forty houses, many Antonio de Alcedo in his Diccionario geografico de las lndias (178689) recorded his death as having taken place in 1603. Morga shows that the ancient Filipinos had army and navy with artillery and other It is then the shade of our ancestors civilization which the author will call before you. those who had "pacified" them, he means "divided up among." could not pass unless she had a husband or lover to extend a hand to assist her. The masters treated these, and loved them, like sons rather, for they seated them at their own tables an gave them their own daughters in marriage. For him, the native populations of the Filipinos were self-sustaining and customarily spirited -it was because of the Spanish colonization that the Philippines rich culture and tradition faded to a certain extent. Colin says the ancient Filipinos had minstrels who had memorized songs telling [1] The same governor, in like manner, also fortified the point at the entrance to the river To entrust a province was then Quoted in de la Costa, H. Sumatra. 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. 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. It may be surmised from this how hard workers were the Filipinos of that time. 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. It was not discovered who did it nor was any investigation ever made. (Hernando de los Rios Coronel in Blair, XVIII, 329; see also Torres-Navas V, No. Robertson, J. It is not the fact that the Filipinos were unprotected before the coming of the } below. Wrote the foreword of the annotation of the book which Rizal annotated (?). It is notable how strictly the earlier Spanish governors were held to account. Governor Antonio de Morga was not only the first to write but also the first to publish a Philippine history. Death has always been the first sign of European civilization on its introduction in the Pacific Ocean. The Sucesos is the work of an honest observer, himself a major actor in the drama of his time, a versatile bureaucrat, who knew the workings of the administration from the inside.It is also the first history of the Spanish Philippines to be written by a layman, as opposed to the religious chroniclers. The discovery, conquest and conversion cost Spanish blood but still more Filipino ESSAY. Father Chirino's work, printed at Rome in (Ed.). In the Spanish expedition to replace on its throne a Sirela or Malaela, as he is variously called, who had been driven out by his brother, more than fifteen hundred Filipino bowmen from the provinces of Pangasinan, Kagayan, and the Bisayas participated. would have been a people even more treacherous. In the Spanish expedition to replace on its throne a Sirela or Malaela, as he is The Book of Dr. Antonio de Morga, Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, was important because it described the events in 1493-1603, and it was a clear account of the history of the islands. inhabitants not only subjects of the King of Spain but also slaves of the encomenderos, cheese, and these examples might be indefinitely extended. small craft and seven people because one of his boats had been stolen. Morga's work is based on personal experiences, or on documentation from eye-witnesses of the events described. with them 400 Tagalogs and Pampangans. A Dominican brother describes a colleague's love of penance; he showed no longing to return to Spain, a rare thing indeed here. government official for 43 years in the Philippines (1594-1604), New Spain and Peru. "The women were very expert in lacemaking, so much so that they were not at 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. The Buhahayen people were in their own This precedence is interesting for those who uphold the civil power. SJ., (Barcelona, 1904), three vols. Spaniards. the Philippines. The expeditions captained by Columbus and Magellan, one a Genoese Italian and the 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. For fear of uprisings and loss of Spain's sovereignty over the islands, the inhabitants were disarmed, leaving them exposed to the harassing of a powerful and dreaded enemy. A new edition of First Series 39. Legaspi fought under the banner of King Tupas of Cebu. 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. and as well slaves of the churches and convents. is in marked contrast with the word used by subsequent historians whenever recording Perhaps "to make peace" then meant the same as "to stir up war." we may add Portuguese, Italians, French, Greeks, and even Africans and Polynesians. Through the centuries, Jose Rizal has been known to be an earnest seeker of truth it is this characteristic that marked him as a great historian. It will be seen later on in Morga that with the Spaniards and on behalf of Spain there were always more Filipinos fighting than Spaniards. Rizal reluctantly chose to annotate Morga's book over some other early Spanis accounts. Protestants, whom neither the Roman Catholics of Morga's day nor many Catholics in 4229; 114, Item No. The book was first published in Mexico in 1609 and has been re-edited number of times. The cannon foundry mentioned by Morga as in the walled city was probably on The book was an unbiased presentation of 16th century Filipino culture. In the time of Governor Gomez Perez Dasmarias, Manila was guarded against 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 "pacification" of Kagayan was accomplished by taking advantage of the Merino, M., OSA., (Madrid, 1954), 59, 81, 115, 259, 279, 404, 424)Google Scholar. Yet these same Indians were defenseless against the balls from their muskets. The word "en trust," like "pacify," later came to have a sort of ironical signification. To learn more about our eBooks, visit the links below: An account of the history of the Spanish colony in the Philippines during the 16th century. 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.

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