“SECOND TRIP OF

JOSE RIZAL”
(Hongkong, Japan, USA)
 AGUSTIN
C A B L A I D A
M I G U E L
M I R A N D A
S U N I E G A
HONG
KONG
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MACA
U
• FEBRUARY 3, 1888

Rizal left Manila for HongKong on board

ZAFIRO-the vessel he ride on

• FEBRUARY 7, 1888

 Zafiro made a brief stopover at Amoy

Rizal did not get off his ship at Amoy for three reasons:
1. He was not feeling well
2. It was raining hard
3. He heard that the City was dirty
• FEBRUARY 16, 1888

 During his stay in HongKong, a British colony, Rizal wrote a letter to Blumentritt,
expressing his bitterness.

“At last I can write freely. At last I can express my thoughts without fear of
censorship from the chief! They forced me to leave my country. Half sick I left the
house,…”
• FEBRUARY 8, 1888

@ Victoria Hotel
 Rizal stayed while he was in HongKong. He was welcomed by Filipino residents ,
including Jose Maria Basa, Balbino Mauricio and Manuel Yriarte (son of Francisco
Yriarte, alcalde mayor of Laguna)
 they were former exiles from the Philippines because of the events in
1972
Jose Sainz de Veranda
 a Spaniard, who was a former secretary of Governor General Terrero,
shadowed Rizal’s movement in HongKong. It is believed that he was
commissioned by the Spanish authorities to spy on Rizal.
• FEBRUARY 18, 1888

Rizal, accompanied by Maria Basa, boarded the ferry steamer Kiu-Kiang for Macao.
He was surprised to see among the passengers a familiar figure— Sainz de Varanda.

 Rizal wrote in his diary,

“The city of Macao is small, low and gloomy. There are many junks, sampans,
but few steamers. It looks sad and is almost dead.”
 IN MACAO…

 Rizal stayed at the home of Don Juan Francisco Lecaros

Don Juan Francisco Lecaros- last Filipino delegate to the Spanish Cortes.
This old Filipino gentleman married a Portuguese lady and resided in Macao.
He was rich and spent his days cultivating plants and flowers, many fo which
came from the Philippines.
 During his two-day sojourn, he visited the theatre, casino, cathedral and
churches, pagodas, botanical garden and bazaars.
He also saw the famous Grotto of Camoens, Portugal’s national poet.
• FEBRUARY 19, 1888
Rizal witnessed a Catholic procession, in which the devotees were dressed in
blue and purple dresses and were carrying unlighted candles.

• FEBRUARY 21, 1888

Rizal and Basa returned to Hongkong, again on board the steamer Kiu-Kiang.
 EXPERIENCES IN HONGKONG…

Rizal wrote down in his own diary the following experiences:

1. Noisy celebration of the Chinese New Year which lasted from February 11th
(Saturday) to 13th (Monday). Continuous explosions of firecrackers. The
richer the Chinese, the more firecrackers he exploded. Rizal, himself fired
many firecrackers at the window of his hotel.
2. Boisterous Chinese theatre, with noisy audience and noisier music. In the
Chinese dramatic art, Rizal observed the following: (1) a man astride a stick
means a man riding on horseback, (2) an actor raising his leg means he is
entering a house, (3) a red dress indicates a wedding, (4) a girl about to be
married coyly covers her face with a fan even in the presence of her
fiance, and (5) a man raising a whip signifies he is about to ride a horse.
3. The marathon lauriat party, wherein the guests were served numerous dishes, such
as dried fruits, geese, shrimps, century eggs, shark fins, bird nests, white ducks,
chicken with vinegar, fish heads, roasted pigs, tea, etc. The longest meal in the world.

4. The Dominican Order was the richest religious order in Hongkong. It engaged
actively in business. It owned more than 700 houses for rent and many shares in
foreign banks. It had millions of dollars deposited in the banks which earned fabulous
interests.

5. Of the Hongkong cemeteries belonging to the Protestants, Catholics, and Muslims,

that of the Protestants was the most beautiful because of its well-groomed plants and
clean pathways. The Catholic cemetery was most pompous, with its ornate and
expensive mausoleums and extravagantly carved sepulchers. The muslim cemetery was
the simplest, containing only a little mosque and tombstones with Arabic inscriptions.
• FEBRUARY 22, 1888

Rizal left Hongkong on board the Oceanic, an American steamer.

His destination was Japan.
He did not like the meals on board, but he liked the ship because it was clean
and efficiently managed.
His cabin mate was a British Protestant missionary who had lived in Calamba
fo 27 years and knew the Chinese language very well. Rizal called him, “a good
man.”
Other passengers, with whom Rizal conversed in their own languages, were
two Portuguese, two Chinese, several British, and an American woman
Protestant missionary.
AMER
ICA
• APRIL 28, 1888

Rizal 1st saw America and he was tainted by racial prejudgment.

He kept notes of his observations during the trip from San Francisco to New
York – he had wealth of 1st hand impressions of America -some were rather
'unfavorable but true.'
-Rizal named as “man of truth”

• ARRIVAL IN SAN FRANCISCO

Belgic – this steamer docked at San Francisco (Saturday morning)

 IN SAN FRANCISCO…

May 4, 1888 – The day he was permitted to go ashore and registered at the Palace
Hotel which was then considered a first- class hotel in the city.
Leland Stanford -a senator representing California -founder & benefactor of Stanford
University
 Grover Cleaveland - the President of the United States at that time.
Oakland – first stop via ferryboat and via Train.
Sacramento – where he ate his supper 75cents and slept at his couch.
Reno, Nevada – where he had his breakfast.
Utah – where he saw Mormons, thickly populated.
Colorado – a lot of snow and pine trees.
 He left the United States for Liverpool, London on board the City of Rome.
City of Rome- the second largest ship in the world.
 Great Eastern – largest ship in the world during his time.

May 6, 1888 – it was Sunday, 4:30 P.M., Rizal left San Francisco for Oakland, nine miles
across San Francisco Bay, by ferry boat.

May 7, 1888 – it was morning, Rizal awoke and had a good breakfast at Reno, Nevada,
now glamorized by American high-pressure propaganda as “The Biggest Little City in the
World”.
 IN NEW YORK…

May 13, 1888 – it was Sunday morning when Rizal reached New York. He stayed three
days in this city, which he called the “big town”.

He visited the scenic and historic places:

Nebraska – Omaha City, as big as San Francisco.

Missouri River – twice as big as Pasig River.
Chicago – every cigar store has an Indian figure, and always different.
Albany – where he saw the Hudson River.
 RIZAL’S IMPRESSION OF AMERICA…

BAD
Non-existence of true civil liberty, as Negro cannot marry an American and vice
versa.
The existence of racial prejudice as shown in their hatred of the Chinese, Japanese
and Negroes.
 The valuing of money over human life
 Lack of racial equality.
 
 RIZAL’S IMPRESSION OF AMERICA…

GOOD
Material progress of the country as shown in its cities, farms, and industries
The drive and energy of the Americans
The natural beauty of the land
The high standard of living
The opportunities for better life offered to poor immigrants.
• 1890

Two years after Rizal’s visit to the United States, Jose Alejandro, who was then
studying engineering in Belgium, roomed with him on 38 Rue Philippe Champagne,
Brussels.
 Rizal’s impression of America “is the land par excellence of freedom but only for
the whites”.