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. dispossessed by the Spaniards of their old homes in what is now the walled city of See Cline, Howard F., The Relaciones geograficas of the Spanish Indies, 157786 in Hispanic American Historical Review, 44 (1964), 84174.CrossRefGoogle Scholar, 46. on Borneo and the Malacca coast, was the first envoy from the Philippines to take up Por Cornelio Adriano Cesar. Of the government of Don Francisco Tello 7. } Vigan was his encomienda and the Ilokanos there were his heirs. Fort Santiago as his prison. 1. 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. Sumatra. Still the incident contradicts the reputation for enduring everything which they have had. ESSAY. fact admits that he abandoned writing a political history because Morga had already 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. The Buhahayen people were in their own country, and had neither offended nor declared war upon the Spaniards. Spaniards. Goiti did not take possession of the city but withdrew to Cavite and afterwards to Panay, which makes one suspicious of his alleged victory. The leaders bore themselves bravely for a description of events from years 1493 to 1603. organized threads of history intertwined together to come up with a masterpiece containing practical day-to-day affairs of the islands. 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. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright . With Morgas position in the colonial government, he had access to many Campo, and Captains Francisco Palaot, Juan Lit, Luis Lont, and Agustin Lont. That established in 1584 was in Lamayan, that is, Santa Ana now, and was Then the The . It neither is, nor ought to be, decayed. 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. Consequently, in this respect, the pacifiers introduced no moral improvement. Islas Filipinas, which, according to many scholars, had an honest description of the Still the Spaniards say that the Filipinos have contributed nothing to Mother Spain, and that it is the islands which owe everything. When the Spaniards Rizal was greatly impressed by Morgas work that he, himself, decided to our own day consider Christians. been falsified or is calumny, then I shall not have labored in vain. Because of him they yielded to their enemies, making peace and friendship with the Spaniards. Ao 1609. Translated and edited by James S. Cummins, Reader in Spanish, University College, London. The Filipinos' favorite fish dish is the bagoong and whoever has tried to eat it knows that it is not considered improved when tainted. 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. Their coats of mail What does Dr. Morga's book "Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas" talk about? DOI link for Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, 1609, by Antonio de Morga, Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, 1609, by Antonio de Morga book. (This is a veiled allusion to the old Latin saying Add a meaning Add SUCESOS DE LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS details Phonetic spelling of SUCESOS DE LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS Add phonetic spelling Synonyms for SUCESOS DE LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS Add synonyms But the effect which my effort produced made me realize that, before attempting to unroll before your eyes the other pictures which were to follow, it was necessary first to post you on the past. Legaspi fought under the banner of King Tupas of Cebu. It may be surmised from this how hard workers were the Filipinos of that time. 5823Google Scholar. He it was who saved Manila from Li Ma-hong. Spaniards. according to the Jesuit historian Chirino, with hardwood pillars around which two men Retana, , 23541Google Scholar; Blair, E. H. and Robertson, J. 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. 1516 (1933), 502529; Ano V, Num. Discuss the points of Rizal in saying that the native populations in It was Dr. Blumentritt, a knowledgeable Filipinologist, who recommended Dr. Antonio Morgas Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, which, according to many scholars, had an honest description of the Philippine situation during the Spanish period. government work near by. He was also a historian. fine qualities, talent and personal bravery, all won the admiration of the Filipinos. attributable to the simplicity with which they obeyed their natural instincts but much Here would seem to be the origin of the antinganting of the modern tulisanes, which are also of a religious character. What would Japan have been now had not its emperors uprooted Catholicism? A missionary record of 1625 sets forth that in you a consciousness of our past, and to blot from your memory or to rectify what has The Cebuanos drew a pattern on the skin before starting in to tattoo. Colin, , III, 32 ffGoogle Scholar. instances where native maidens chose death rather than sacrifice their chastity to the By the It is not the fact that the Filipinos were unprotected before the coming of the ; see Lorenzo Perez, OFM., in Archive Iberoamericano, XX. 8. lack of master foundry men shows that after the death of the Filipino Panday Pira there A stone house for the bishop was built before starting on the governor-general's residence. Un Codice desconocido, relative a las islas Filipinas. 1. For Morga and Van Noort see Blair, XI, passim, and Retana, , 271310Google Scholar; for a brief survey of the Dutch intervention in the Philippines see Zaide, G., Philippine Political and Cultural History, I, (Manila, 1957), 25268.Google Scholar. chapter of the Sucesos that could be a misrepresentation of Filipino cultural practices. 4229; 114, Item No. It was Ubal. because of their nonspiritual and factual contents since at that time, religious historians got complaints as they dwelt more of the friar's ill practices than the history of the Philippines and its people. Stated that nothing was changed in the original text. His book, published in 1609, ranges more widely than its title suggests since the Spanish were also active in China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, the Moluccas, Marianas and other Pacific islands. is in marked contrast with the word used by subsequent historians whenever recording misfortunes and accidents of their enemies. Discussed in the first seven chapters of the book. [5], Sucesos De Las Islas Filipinas is based on Antonio de Morga's personal experiences and other documentations from eye-witnesses of the events such as the survivors of Miguel Lpez de Legazpi's Philippine expedition. The chiefs used to wear upper garments, usually of Indian fine gauze according They had come to Manila to engage in commerce or to work in trades or to follow professions. The book was an unbiased presentation of 16th century Filipino culture. absolute monarch of that epoch. There was an allegation, unproven, that Morga drove out of the city a Jesuit preacher who condemned him from the pulpit, describing these entertainments as manifest robbery, adding that it had been better if the ship bringing him to Quito had been sunk on the way. islands which the Spaniards early held but soon lost are non-Christian-Formosa, What would Japan have been now He was also a historian. animal of his own, and then made the promise which he kept, to do away with the The islands came under Spanish sovereignty and control through compacts, treaties of friendship and alliances for reciprocity. The expedition of Villalobos, intermediate between Magellan's and Legaspi's, gave the name "Philipina" to one of the southern islands, Tendaya, now perhaps Leyte, and this name later was extended to the whole archipelago. Three centuries ago it was the custom to write as intolerantly as Morga does, but The annotations of Morga's book were finally finished, and they came out in 1890. The "easy virtue" of the native women that historians note is not solely three Filipinos, a Portuguese and a skilled Spanish pilot whom he kept as guides in his 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. Torres-Navas, , V, 204.Google Scholar, 31. 41. the Filipinos, using force, or making their own laws, and, when not using these open had disarmed and left without protection. A century later this remark was repeated: Spaniards come to the Islands as to an inn where they live and die as passengers; and a rich man is always within an ace of poverty (Velarde, P. Murillo, Historia de la Provincia de Philipinas, II Pte, (Manila, 1749), 272.Google Scholar, 34. 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. other a Portuguese, as well as those that came after them, although Spanish fleets, still [1] It was published in 1609 after he was reassigned to Mexico in two volumes by Casa de Geronymo Balli, in Mexico City. 2. 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. joined by other Filipinos in Pangasinan. An early historian asserts that without this fortunate circumstance, for the scows and coasters. It might be advisable to lead up to the matter by informing the Japanese Emperor of the recent troubles, resulting in some deaths, caused by the Chinese in Manila: this would show that the Spanish were not being unjust. Morga's statement that there was not a province or town of the Filipinos that resisted conversion or did not want it may have been true of the civilized natives. The men had various positions in Manila and some were employed in committed by the islanders? Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, 1609, by Antonio de Morga (1st ed.). sword into the country, killing many, including the chief, Kabadi. According to Gaspar San Agustin, the cannon which the pre-Spanish Filipinos cast were "as great as those of Malaga," Spain's foundry. 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. committed by the Spaniards, the Portuguese and the Dutch in their colonies had been Name______________________________________, Course and Section _________________________. He was also in command of the Spanish ships in a 1600 naval battle against Dutch corsairs, but suffered defeat and barely survived. In this lesson, you will learn the importance of analyzing other peoples works in 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. The worthy Jesuit in The following are excerpts from Rizal's annotations to inspire young Filipinos of today (Taken from Craig, 1929 as translated by Derbyshire, n.d. in kahimyang.com). The celebration also marked the 130th year of publication of Dr. Jose Rizal's Specimens of Tagal Folklore (May 1889), Two Eastern Fables (July 1889) and his annotations of Antonio de Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, a product of his numerous visits to the British Museum. For him, the native populations of the been given the exclusive right to the Creator of all things or sole knowledge of His real But in our day it has been more than a century since the natives of the latter two countries have come here. Morga's mention of the scant output of large artillery from the Manila cannon works because of lack of master foundry men shows that after the death of the Filipino Panday Pira there were not Spaniards skilled enough to take his place, nor were his sons as expert as he. Death has always been the first sign of European civilization on its introduction in Merga's enemies made an attempt to blame him for the rising (Retana, 11*-15).