Ssc1 Rizal and other heroes/ heroines Chapter 23: last trip abroad (1896)

1. Chapter 23
Last Trip Abroad, (1896)

2. - No longer an exile, Rizal had a pleasant trip
from
Dapitan to Manila with delightful stopovers
in Dumaguete, Cebu, Iloilo, Capiz, and
Romblon.
- He missedthe regular steamer Isla de Luzon
which sailed toSpain the day before he
arrived in Manila Bay
while waiting for
the next ship for Spain, he was kept as a guest´
onboard the Spanish cruiser Castilla.

3. August 26, 1896, Andres Bonifacio and the
Katipunan raised the cry of revolution in
the hills of Balintawak a few
miles
north of Manila. Rizal, worried about the
raging hostilities, left for Spain on the
steamer Isla de Panay.
September 3, 1896. It was his last trip
abroad.

4. From Dapitan to Manila.
Leaving Dapitan at midnight, July 31, 1896, the
Spaña with Rizal and party on board, sailed
northward.
At dawn the next day(Saturday, August 1)
it anchored at Dumaguete, capital of Negros
Oriental,Dumaguete wrote Rizal his Travel diary
‘Spreads out on the beach. There are big houses,
some with galvanized iron roofing. Outstanding
are the house of a lady, whose name I forgotten,
which is occupied by the government and another
one just begun with ipil posts´.
In Dumaguete, Rizal visited a friend and former
classmate, Herrero Regidor, and Rufina family.
In the afternoon he operated on a Spanish captain of
the Guardia civil.

5. The España left Dumaguete about 1:00
p.m and reached Cebu of the following
morning. Rizal was fascinated by the
entrance to Cebu which he
considered
beautiful´.
- At the house of Attorney Mateos. He met
an old couple whom he had known in
Madrid
- In Cebu. He wrote in his diary, I did two
operations
of strabotomy, one operation
on the ears, and
another of tumor´.
-

6. - In the morning of Monday August 3,
Rizal left Cebu
going
to Iloilo.
‘The voyage was fine. At the right we
saw Mactan an island famous for
what happened to Magellan. The
whole afternoon was magnificent . . .
We saw many islands along our way .
. . The next day, in the morning, we
entered Iloilo´ . . .Rizal landed at
Iloilo, went shopping in the city, and
visited Molo’

7. -
Of the Molo church he commented:
‘ The church is pretty outside and the
interior is not bad, considering that it had
been painted by a lad. The paintings are
mostly copies of biblical scenes by Gustave
Dore’.
- From Iloilo, Rizal’s ship sailed to Capiz
- After a brief stopover, it proceeded
towards Manila via Romblon

8. Rizal Misses Ship Going to Spain (España)
- Arrived in Manila Bay early in
August 6, 1896
- Unfortunately, Rizal was not able to
catch the mail
ship Isla de Luzon for
Spain because it had departed the
previous day at 5:00 p.m. . He was
greatly disappointed, but he took this
unlucky incidence with abiding
resignation.

9. Isla de Panay at Port Said, 1898
Governor Ramon Blanco

10. -Writing to Bluementritt later, Rizal mentioned this
episode,
‘Unfortunately, I did not catch the mail ship for Spain,
and fearing that my stay in Manila for month might bring
me troubles I made known to the governor general,
while remaining on the board the ship (España) of my
wish to be isolated from everybody, except my family´.
• Near midnight of the same day. August 6
•
Rizal was transferred to the Spanish
cruiser Castilla by order
of Governor General
Ramon Blanco. Rizal stayed on the cruiser for about
a month, from August 6 to September 2,1869,
pending the availability of Spain-bound steamer.

11. -Outbreak of Philippine Revolution
While Rizal was patiently waiting on the
cruiser Castilla for the next steamer to take him to
Spain, portentous events occurred, presaging the
downfall of Spanish power in Asia.
August 19, 1896
The Katipunan plot to overthrow Spanish rule by
means of revolution was discovered by Fray Mariano
Gil Augustinian
cura of
Tondo

12. - This startling incident stuck terror
into the hearts of the Spanish officials
and residents, producing a hysteria
of vindictive retaliation against the
Filipino patriots
August 26,1896
‘Cry of Balintawak´ which was raised
by Bonifacio and his valiant
Katipuneros in PugadLawin.

13. At sunrise of August 30
The revolution led by Bonifacio and Jacinto attacked San Juan
near the city of Manila, but they were repulse with heavy
losses. In the afternoon, after the Battle of San Juan,
Governor General Blanco proclaimed as tate of war in the
first eight provinces for rising in arms against Spain Manila
(as province),
Bulacan
Cavite
Batangas
Laguna
Pampanga
Nueva Ecija Tarlac
Manila
Rizal learned of the eruption of the revolution and the
raging battles around Manila through the newspaper he
read the Castilla.

14. Rizal He was worried for two
reasons:
(1)The violent revolution
which he sincerely believed
to be premature and would
only cause much suffering
and terrible loss of human
lives and property, had
started
(2) It would arouse Spanish
vengeance against all
Filipino patriots

15. • August 30, 1896 (Departure for Spain)
•
The day when the state of war was
proclaimed in the eight provinces, Rizal
received from Governor General Blanco
two
letters of the introduction for
1. The Minister of War
2. The Minister of Colonies
with a covering letter which absolved him
from all blame for raging revolution.

16. At 6:00 p.m., September 2
Rizal was transferred to the steamer Isla de
Panay which was
sailing
for Barcelona,
Spain. The next morning, September 3,
the
steamer left Manila Bay. At last, Rizal's last trip to
Spain
began. Among his fellow passengers
onboard were Don Pedro Roxas (rich Manila
Creole Industrialist and his friend) and his son
named Periquin

17. September 7 (Rizal in Singapore)
The Isla de Panay arrived at Singapore .
The following morning Rizal and other
passengers went ashore for sightseeing and
shopping for souvenirs. In the travel diary,
Rizal wrote:
‘I have observed some changes:
There more Chinese merchants and less
Indians. . . I bought a Chinese gown. . .
Singapore has changed much since I saw
it for the first time in 1882’.

18. Don Pedro with his son, disembarked at
Singapore. He advised Rizal to stay behind too
and take advantage of the protection of the
British law. Rizal did not heed his advice.
Don Manuel Camus and several Filipino
residents of Singapore, urging him to stay in
Singapore to save his life. He also ignored the
appeal because he had given his word of
honor to Governor General Blanco and he did
not like to break it.

19. Victim of Spanish Duplicity.
- By refusing to break his word of honor in
Singapore, Rizal
sealed
his own
doom.
- For without his knowledge, Governor
Blanco was secretly
conspiring with the
Ministers of War and the
Colonies
(ultramar) for his destruction
- Great hero and genius that he was, Rizal
proved to be as
gullible as Sultan Zaide,
another victim of Spanish intrigue.

20. ‘For all his wonderful talents, Rizal was after all a
mortal man who committed mistakes. And one of
his greatest mistakes was to believe that
Governor General Blanco was a man of honor
and a friend because he allowed him to go as a
free man to Spain to become a physiciansurgeon of the Spanish army in Cuba, where a
bloody revolution was raging, and gave him two
nice letters of introduction addressed to the
Spanish Ministers of War and the Colonies’

21. Rizal Arrested Before Reaching Barcelona
September 8, 1:00 p.m.
The Isla de Panay, with Rizal onboard, left
Singapore, unaware of the Spanish duplicity
particularly of Governor General Blanco's
infernal deceit, he happily continued the
voyage towards Barcelona.
September 25
He saw the steamer Isla de Luzon, leaving the
Suez Canal crammed with Spanish troops.

22. September 27, Sunday (Two days later)
He heard from the passengers that a telegram
arrived from Manila reporting the execution of
Francisco Roxas Genato and Osorio
September 28 (a day after the steamer had left Port
Said)
A passenger told Rizal the bad news that he would
be arrested by order of Governor General Blanco and
would be sent to prison in Cueta (Spanish Morocco),
opposite Gibraltar.

23. - Shocked by the alarming news, Rizal belatedly
realized that he was duped by the unscrupulous
Spanish officials, particularly the sly
Governor
General Blanco. With an agonizing heart, he
immediately wrote a letter to his best friend,
Blumentritt,
unburdening his disgust and
bitterness as follows:
‘There was nothing official yet about impending
arrest; it was still merely shipboard
gossip. There are people on board who do
nothing but slander me and invent fanciful
stories about me. I'm going to become a
legendary personage.’

24. September 30 (at 4:00 p.m.)
He was officially notified by Captain Alemany that
he should stay in his cabin until further orders from
Manila. He graciously compiled with the captain's
directive
September 30 (6:25 p.m. - arrival in Barcelona as
prisoner)
‘I saw through a tiny window. the beautiful view
of the port with its monumental and significant
castle in three levels . . . illumined by the
lingering afternoon lights.’

25. October 3, at 10:00 o'clock in the morning
- The Isla de Panay arrived in Barcelona,
with Rizal a prisoner
on board.The trip
from Manila to Barcelona lasted exactly 30
days.
- He was kept under heavy guard in his
cabin for three days. His jailor was no longer
the ship captain but the Military
Commander of Barcelona, who happened
to be

26. General Eulogio Despujol
The same one who ordered his banishment to Dapitan
in July, 1892. It was one of those coincidences in the
lives of men that make "history stranger than
fiction."On his second day in Barcelona, Rizal,
although held incommunicado in his cabin, noticed
the city celebration of the feast of St, Francis of Assisi.
He recorded it in his diary as follows:
‘At 12:00 o'clock I counted as many as 31 cannon
shots and at6:00 there were again as many. At
night there was a concert in the dining room
which can be heard from my cabin’.

27. On October 6 (3:00 a.m.)
- Rizal was awakened by the guards
and escorted to the grim and infamous
prison-fortress named Monjuich.
- He spent the whole morning in a
cell.

28. 2:00 in the afternoon
- He was taken out of prison by the guards and
brought to the headquarters of General Despujol.
In the interview, which lasted a quarter of an
hour, the brusque
general told Rizal that he
would be shipped back to Manila on
board the
transport ship Colon which was leaving that
evening. After the Interview, Rizal was taken abroad
the Colon which was "full of soldiers and officers and
their families."
October 6 (8:00 p.m.)
The ship left Barcelona, with Rizal on board S.S.
Colon

29. Rizal's Cell
Fort Santiago

30. End of Slides
Prepared by:
Mary Grace V. Mancao
IV-BSHM