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    Rizal was forced to travel abroad for the second time at age 27 as a practicing physician, writer, and reformer disillusioned with the injustices in the Philippines. He visited Hong Kong, Macao, Japan, the United States, London, and other places from 1888-1892. During this time, he furthered his studies, wrote for La Solidaridad, and began writing his second novel El Filibusterismo while promoting reforms in the Philippines. His experiences abroad reinforced his nationalism and desire for change in his home country.

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    Rizal was forced to travel abroad for the second time at age 27 as a practicing physician, writer, and reformer disillusioned with the injustices in the Philippines. He visited Hong Kong, Macao, Japan, the United States, London, and other places from 1888-1892. During this time, he furthered his studies, wrote for La Solidaridad, and began writing his second novel El Filibusterismo while promoting reforms in the Philippines. His experiences abroad reinforced his nationalism and desire for change in his home country.

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    Rizal was forced to travel abroad for the second time at age 27 as a practicing physician, writer, and reformer disillusioned with the injustices in the Philippines. He visited Hong Kong, Macao, Japan, the United States, London, and other places from 1888-1892. During this time, he furthered his studies, wrote for La Solidaridad, and began writing his second novel El Filibusterismo while promoting reforms in the Philippines. His experiences abroad reinforced his nationalism and desire for change in his home country.

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    Second Travel

    of Rizal
    Prepared by :
    GROUP 1
    February 1888
    - Forced to travel for the second time.
    - At the age of 27 years old.

     Practicing Physician
     Recognized main-of-letters
     Embittered victim of human iniquities
     A disillusioned dreamer
     A frustrated reformer

    A. HONGKONG (British Colony)


    February 8, 1888 – arrived at Hong Kong
     Wrote a letter to Blumentritt dated Feb. 16,1888 (Expressing his bitterness)
     Stayed at Victoria Hotel
     Welcomed by Jose Maria Basa, Balbino Manricio, and Manuek Yriarte (son of
    Francisco Yriarte,alcalde Mayor of Laguna)
     Jose Saint de Varanda (Spanish Spy)

    Experiences : (HONG KONG)

    1. Noisy New Year Celebration


    2. Chinese Theatre
    a. A man stride a stick
    - man riding on horseback
    b. An actor raising his leg
    - he is entering a house
    c. A red dress
    - wedding
    d. A girl about to be married
    - coyly covers her face
    e. A man raising a whip
    - about to ride a horse
    3. Marathon Lauriat Party
    - longest meal in the world
    4. Dominican Order
    - Richest religious order in Hong Kong
    - Own 700 houses and foreign bank shares
    5. Hong Kong cemeteries belonging to the Protestants, Catholics, and Muslims

    B. MACAO (Portuguese Colony)


    - February 18, left for Macao
    - Boarded ferry steamer Kiu-Kiang
    - Accompanied by Basa
     Visited the theatre, casino cathedral and churches, pagodas botanical garden
    and bazaars
     Saw the famous Grotto of Camões (Portugal’s National Poet)
    - February 20 – returned to Hong Kong
    - February 22, 1888 - left Hong Kong
    - On board Oceanic (American Steamer)
    C. JAPAN
    - British Protestant Missionary
    - ‘’ a good man ‘’

    Interludes:

    1. Land of the Cherry Blossoms


    - For one month and a half (February 28 – April 13)
     Enchanted by natural beauty
     Charming manners
     Picturesque shrines
    2. Fell in love
    - Seiko Usui
    - O-Sei-San

    YOKOHAMA (February 28, 1888)

    TOKYO - (March 2-7)


    - Wrote to Blumentritt
     Juan Perez Caballero – Sec. of Spanish Legation
    1. Economize his living expenses
    2. Nothing to hide
     Studied Japanese language
     Studied Japanese art – Kabuki
     Studied Judo – self-defense
     As well as arts and music
     Visited Meguro, Nikko, Hakone, Miyanoshita and Charming Villages of Japan

    April 13, 1888 – left Japan


    – bound to United States

    D. UNITED STATES
     Along the Pacific voyage meets TETCHO SUEHIRO – Japan journalist,
    novelist & champion of human rights.

    SAN FRANCISCO
    - Steamer Belgic
    - April 28, 1888 – arrived in U.S. land
    - May 4, 1888 – permitted to land
    - Pres. Glover Cleveland
    OAKLAND

    RENO NEVADA
    - ‘’The Biggest Little City in the World’’
    NEW YORK
    - May 13, 1888 – reached New York
    - May 16, 1888 – left New York for Liverpool on board the City of Rome – 2nd largest
    ship

    Impressions:
    1. Progressive
    2. Energetic American people
    3. Natural beauty
    4. High Standard of living
    5. Better opportunities
    6. Lack of racial equality

    ‘’ America, is the land par excellence of freedom but only for the whites’’

    E. LONDON
    - Lived from May 1888 – March 1889

    WHY HE CHOSE THIS CITY?


    1. To improve his knowledge about English language
    2. To study and annotate Morga’s ‘’ Successos de las Islas Filipinas ‘’
    3. London was a safe place for him

    EXPERIENCES:
    1. Engaged in Filipiniana studies
    2. Completed annotating Morga’s Book
    3. Wrote many article for La Solidaridad
    4. Penned a famous letter to the young women of Malolos
    5. Wrote to Blumentritt
    6. Romance with Gertrude Beckett
    MAY 24, 1888 – arrived in Liverpool, England
    TRIP ACROSS ATLANTIC
    - On board ‘’ City of Rome ‘’
    - Rizal entertained the American and European passengers with his marvelous skills
    with the yo-yo as an offensive weapon.
    YO-YO
    - Is a small wooden dice attached to a string from the finger
    LONDON
    May 25,188 – arrived in London
    Dr. Reinhold Rost
    - Librarian of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    - Called Rizal ‘’a pearl of a man’’ (Una perk de hombre)

    News from home:


    1. Persecution of the Filipino patriots who signed the ‘’Anti-Friar Petition of 1888’’
    2. Persecution of the Calamba tenants including Rizal’s family and relatives
    3. Furious attacks on Rizal by senators in Spanish newspapers
    4. Manuel T. Hidalgo, Saturnina’s husband was exiled to Bohol without due process of law
    5. Laureano Viado was arrested because copies of ‘’Noli’’ were found in his house

    PARIS AND SPAIN


    September 1888
    - Visited Paris for a week
     To search for more historical materials in the Bibliotheque Nationale
    December 11, 1888
    - Went to Spain met Marcelo H. del Pilar and Mariano Ponce
    December 24, 1888
    - spent Christmas & New Year Day with the Becketts
    - became the leader of Filipino in Europe

     Asociacion La Solidaridad (Solidaridad Association)


    - Inaugurated on Dec.31, 1888
     La Solidaridad
    - Patriotic newspaper founded by Graciano Lopez Jaena on February 15,1889
     Los Agricultures Filipinos (The Filipino Farmers)
    - Rizal’s first article published on March 25,1889
     ‘’Letter to the Young Women of Malolos’’
    - February 22, 1889 in Tagalog

    Romance with Gertrude Beckett (March 19, 1889)


    - Left London for Paris

    PARIS
    - Arrived on spring of 1889

    Founded Three Filipino Societies


    1. Kidlat Club
    2. Indios Bravos (Brave Indians)
    3. R.D.L.M. (Redencion de los Malayos)

    Por Telefono
    - A satire against Fr. Salvador Font

    December 25, 1889 – Rizal’s last Christmas dinner in Paris

    Brussels, Belgium
    - Busy writing his second novel
    - Wrote articles for La Solidaridad
     New Orthography of Tagalog Language
    K and W –> C and O
     To My Muse (1890)
     Romance with Petite Jacoby

    MADRID
    - Challenged Luna into duel
    - Challenged Wenceslao E. Retana
    BIARRITZ
    - Finished El Filibusterismo
    GHENT
    - Published the El Filibusterismo

    BACK TO HONGKONG
    - Lived from November 1891 – June 1892
    - As an Ophthalmic Surgeon
    - Family reunion in Hong Kong

    LAST TRIP ABROAD


    BARCELONA
    - Arrived as a prisoner on September 30, 1896
    October 6, 1896
    - Left Barcelona back to Manila

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