SECOND TRAVEL OF DR.

JOSE RIZAL
(1888-1892)

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 • February 3, 1888 – after a short stay of six months in
Calamba, Rizal was forced to leave his country for a second
time. Rizal left Manila for Hongkong on board the Zafiro. He
was sick and sad to leave Calamba.
• February 7, 1888 – the steamer made a brief stopover at
Amoy. But he got off the ship he was not feeling well and that
the city was dirty.
• February 8, 1888 – he arrived in Hongkong. He stayed at
Victoria Hotel. Accordingly, it was a small but very clean city.
He was welcomed by Filipino residents like Jose Maria Basa,
Balbino Mauricio and Manuel Yriarte. There were other
Filipinos in Hongkong but they were generally poor, gentle
and timid. He observed the noisy celebration of the Chinese
New Year due to the continuous explosions of firecrackers, the
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 • February 18, 1888 – Rizal and Basa visited Macao. They
boarded the ferry steamer, Ku-Kiang. The city was small,low
and gloomy. There were many junks, sampans, but few
steamers. The city looked sad and dead. They stayed at the
house of Don Juan Francisco Lecaros. They also visited the
theatre, casino, cathedral, churches, pagodas, botanical
gardens and bazaars.
• February 20, 1888 – after their two-day sojourn in Macao,
Rizal and Basa returned to Hongkong on board again on the
steamer Ku-Kiang.
• February 21, 1888 – Rizal and Basa went back to Hongkong.
Rizal stayed in Hongkong for almost two weeks. While in
Hongkong, Jose Sainz de Varonda, a Spaniard, was
commissioned by the Spanish authorities to spy on Rizal.
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 Japan
• February 22, 1888 – Rizal left Hongkong alone on board the
Oceanic, American steamer to Japan his next destination.
Rizal liked the ship because it was clean and efficiently
managed but did not like the meals on board. Other
passengers of the ship were two Portuguese, two Chinese,
several British and an American woman Protestant
missionary. His cabin mate was a British Protestant
missionary who lived in China for 27 years.
• February 28, 1888 – Rizal arrived in Yokohama, Japan and
registered at the Grand Hotel.
• February 29, 1888 – he proceeded to Tokyo and took a room
at Tokyo Hotel where he stayed for 6 days. Japan was to him
the “Land of the Cherry Blossoms” because of its natural
beauty and the charming manners of the Japanese people.
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 Japan
• He visited by Juan Perez Caballero, secretary of the Spanish
legation. He wrote a letter to Ferdinand Blumentritt, sharing
his observation in Japan.
• During his first day in Tokyo, Japan, Rizal was embarrassed
because he didn’t know the Japanese language. To avoid
further embarrassment, he decided to study the Japanese
language and a few days, he was able to speak the language.
• He also studied Kabuki, visited museum, libraries, art
galleries and shrines, and villages. He was impressed by the
beauty of Tokyo, but he was not impressed with the mode of
transportation because the rickshaws were drawn by men,
which made Rizal disgusted because human were working
like horses.

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 Japan
• He also met Seiko Usui but Rizal called her as O-Sei-San.
They also met daily as they visited interesting spots of the
city, like the Imperial Art Gallery, the Imperial Library, the city
parks and picturesque shrines. She served as his guide,
interpreter and tutor.
• April 13, 1888 – Rizal boarded the Belgic, an English steamer
bound for the United States. He left Japan very sad because
he would never see again the beautiful land and his beloved
O-Sei-San. His sojourn in Japan for 45days was one of the
happiest interludes in Rizal’s life.
• On board the Belgic, he met a passenger, Techo Suchero, a
Japanese newspaperman who was jailed in his country for
his articles and principles and was exiled. The ship carried
643 Chinese people and other nationalities.
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 Across the Atlantic - USA
• April 28, 1888 – Rizal and Techo arrived in San Francisco
Port on Saturday morning of April 28. All passengers
were not allowed to land because the ship was placed on
a quarantine on the ground that it came form the Far
East where cholera epidemic was alleged to be raging.
• He soon discovered that placing the ship under
quarantine was prompted by politics.
• After a week of quarantine, all first class passengers,
including Rizal were permitted to land but the Chinese
and Japanese passengers of the second and third class
accommodations was remained on board.

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 Across the Atlantic - USA
• May 4, 1888 – it was the day when Rizal and other
passengers were permitted to land. Rizal registered at the
Palace Hotel.
• May 6, 1888 – Rizal left San Francisco to Oakland by ferry
boat. In Oakland, he took his supper at Sacramento for
75 cents and slept in his coach.
• May 7, 1888 – Rizal boarded a train for a trip across the
continent.
• Reno, Nevada (May 7); Utah, Ogden, Denver (May 8);
• Colorado (May 9); Nebraska (May 10);
• Chicago (May 11); Canada (May 12);
• Albany (May 13) and travel to New York City.
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 Across the Atlantic - USA
• May 13, 1888 – Rizal reached New York and stayed for 3 days.
Rizal called it as “The Big Town”. He visited the memorial
George Washington, and other scenic and historic places.
• May 16, 1888 – he left New York for Liverpool and board the
City of Rome. He also visited the Colossal Statue of Liberty on
Bedloe Island.
Rizal’s Impressions of America
1. Progressive nation
2. People were energetic and hard-working
3. Better opportunities for immigrants
4. Racial prejudice
5. Freedom and democracy were only in words, not practiced
6. No true liberty
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 London, England
• May 25, 1888 – he went to London and stayed there for a
short time as a guest at the home of Dr. Antonio Ma.
Regidor (lawyer).
• He boarded at Becket family, and being close to Gertrude
Becket.
• He spent Sundays in the house of Dr. Reinhold Rost, and
played crickets with Dr. Rost son.
• He also spent much of his time in the British Museum
annotating Morga’s book, Sucesos de los Islas Filipinas
(Historical Events of the Philippine Islands).
• For 10 months, he was deeply immensed in his historical
studies in London.
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 London, England
He received news:
• Persecution of the Filipino patriots who signed the
petition addressed to the Queen Regent of Spain
requesting the expulsion of the friars in the Philippines.
• Attacks on Rizal by Senator Salamanca and Vida in the
Spanish Cortes and Wenceslao Retana.
• Persecution of the Rizal’s family and other Calamba
farmers for their courage to petition the government for
agrarian.
• Exile of Manuel Hidalgo without due process.
• Arrest and jailing of Rizal’s friend – Lauriano Viado, for
the copies of Noli found in his house.

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 • September, 1888 – Rizal visited Paris for a week and visited
his Juan Luna and his wife Paz Pardo de Tavera with their son
Andres.
• December 11, 1888 – he went again to Spain and visited
Madrid and Barcelona. He went to visit his compatriots
Marcelo H. Del Pilar and Marciano Ponce. They exchanged
ideas and promised to cooperate in the fight for reforms.
• December 24, 1888 – he returned to London and spent
Christmas and New Year with the Becket family.
• December 31, 1888 – the Associacion de La Solidaridad was
inaugurated, Rizal served as the Honorary President;
Galicano Apacible (President); Graciano Lopez-Jaena (VP);
Manuel Santa Maria (Secretary); Mariano Ponce (Treasurer);
Jose Ma. Panganiban (Accountant).
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 • January 14, 1889 – Rizal wrote Blumentritt of his
proposal to establish the “Inauguration Association of
the Filipinologist” and have its inauguration in the
French capital. Blumentritt gladly supported him.
• January 28, 1889 – Rizal a letter addressed to the
members of the Associacion de La Solidaridad
recognizing his position as Honorary President. On his
letter, he stressed that the individual should give way to
the welfare of society and he should nor expect
rewards/honours for what he does.
• February 15, 1889 – Graciano Lopez-Jaena and Mariano
Ponce was founded newspaper, called as La Solidaridad
in Barcelona – the official organ of the Propaganda
Movement.

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 La Solidaridad: Aims
1. To work for a peaceful political and social reforms in
the Philippines;
2. To portray the deplorable conditions of the Philippines
so that Spain may treat them;
3. Oppose the evil forces of reaction;
4. To advocate liberal ideas and progress;
5. Champion the legitimate aspirations of the Filipino
people to life, democracy and happiness.
• Rizal congratulated Lopez-Jaena and its associates in
founding the news organ, however, he advised Lopez-
Jaena that great care should be taken in publishing only
the truth.
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 Paris, France
• March 19, 1889 – From London he went again to Paris.
He organized the society called Kidlat Club – aim to bring
together the young Filipinos in the French capital so
that they could enjoy their stay in the city during the
duration of the Paris Universal Exposition.
• May 6, 1889 – Rizal and his friends attended the opening
ceremonies of the Paris Universal Exposition.
- vast crowd of tourist attended
-greatest attraction was the Eiffel Tower (Alexander
Eiffel)
-Felix Hidalgo (2nd), Felix Pardo De Tavera & Juan
Luna (3rd), Rizal’s artwork didn’t qualify for the
exhibit.
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 Paris, France
• June 24, 1889 – Rizal stood as Godfather to a baby-girl
(Maria de la Paz Blanca Laureana Hermenegilda Juana y
Pardo de Tavera) born to Juan Luna and his wife.
• August 1889 – Rizal scheduled the holding of the
inaugural convention of the International Association of
Filipinologist in Paris. This association aim to study the
Philippines from the scientific and historical point of
view. However, the inaugural convention did not
materialize because the French government discouraged
the holding of conferences by private organizations
during the period of the international exposition.

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 Paris, France
• September 21, 1889 – Rizal founded the secret society
called as Redencion de los Malayos (Redemption of the
Malays) - It was patterned after Freemasonry. It had
various degrees of membership, “with the members not
knowing each other.”
Members of the R.D.L.M Society
1. Gregorio Aguilera
2. Jose Ma. Basa
3. Julio Dorente
4. Marcelo Del Pilar
5. Mariano Ponce
6. Baldomero Roxas
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 Brussels, Belgium
• January 28, 1890- Rizal left Paris for Brussels, Belgium
Two reasons impelled Rizal to leave Paris, namely;
1. the cost of living in Paris was very high because of
the Universal Exposition
2. the gay social life of the city hampered his literary
works, especially the writing of his second novel, El
Filibusterismo.
• Rizal was accompanied by Jose Albert when he moved
to Brussels. They lived in a modest boarding house on
38 Rue Philippe Champagne, which was run by two
Jacoby sisters (Suzanne and Marie). Later Albert, left the
city and was replaced by Jose Alejandro, an engineering
student.
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 BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
• Sobre la Nueva Ortografia de la Lengua Tagala (The New
Orthography of the Tagalog Language) was published in La
Solidaridad.
• Letters from home which Rizal received in Brussels worried
him;
1. the Calamba agrarian trouble was getting worse.
2. the Dominican Order filed a suit in court to dispossess
the Rizal family of their lands in Calamba.
• Rizal had bad dreams during the nights in Brussels when he
was restless because he was always thinking of his unhappy
family in Calamba.
• Rizal feared that he would not live long. He was not afraid to
die, but he wanted to finish his second novel before he went
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 Brussels, Belgium
• In the face of the sufferings which afflicted his family,
Rizal planned to go home. He could not stay in Brussels
writing a book while his parents, relatives, and friends in
the distant Philippines were persecuted.
• July 29, 1890- another letter to Ponce written at Brussels
by Rizal, he announced that he was leaving Brussels at
the beginning of the following month and would arrive in
Madrid about the 3rd or 4th (August).
• He had an amorous relationship with Suzanne Jacoby,
and when Rizal leave Brussels at the end of July, she cried
a lot.

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 Misfortune in Madrid, Spain
• Early in August, 1890, Rizal arrived in Madrid
• Upon arrival in Madrid, Rizal immediately sought help of
the Filipino colony, The Asociacion Hispano-Filipina, and
the liberal Spanish newspaper in securing justice for the
oppressed Calamba tenants.
-El Resumen- a Madrid newspaper which
sympathized with the Filipino cause, said: “To cover
the ear, open the purse, and fold the arms—this is
the Spanish colonial policy.
- La Epoca- an anti-Filipino newspaper in Madrid.

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 Life Events Madrid, Spain
• Jose Ma. Panganiban, his talented co-worker in the
Propaganda Movement, died in Barcelona on August 19,
1890, after a lingering illness.
• Aborted duel with Antonio Luna
• Rizal challenged Wenceslao Retana – a Spanish talented
scholar, an agent of the Spanish friars, and his rival in pen
• Infidelity of Leonor Rivera – marrying Charles Henry
Kipping.
• Rizal-Del Pilar Rivalry - Rizal wrote a brief note thanking
his compatriots for electing him as Responsible. It was
the last time he saw Madrid.

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 Biarritz, France
• To seek solace for his disappointments in Madrid, Rizal took a
vacation in the resort city of Biarritz on the fabulous French
Riviera. He was a guest of the rich Boustead family at its
winter residence—Villa Eliada.
• February, 1891- Rizal arrived in Biarritz, France.
• Frustrated in romance, Rizal found consolation in writing.
Evidently, while wooing Nellie and enjoying so “many
magnificent moonlight nights” with her, he kept working on
his second novel which he began to write in Calamba 1887.
• March 29, 1891- the eve of his departure from Biarritz to
Paris, he finished the manuscript of El Filibusterismo.
• March 30, 1891-Rizal bade farewell to the hospitable and
friendly Bousteads and proceeded to Paris by train.
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 PARIS, FRANCE TO BRUSSELS,
BELGIUM
• April 4, 1891 - Rizal wrote to his friend, Jose Ma. Basa, in Hong
Kong from Paris, expressing his desire to go to that British
colony and practice ophthalmology in order to earn his living.
• Middle of April, 1891- Rizal was back in Brussels. Since
abdicating his leadership in Madrid in January, 1891, owing to
the intrigues of his jealous compatriots, Rizal retired from the
Propaganda Movement or reform crusade.
• May 1, 1891- Rizal notified the Propaganda authorities in
Manila to cancel his monthly allowance and devote the money
to some better cause
• May 30, 1891- revision of the finished manuscript of El
Filibusterismo was mostly completed
• June 13, 1891- Rizal informed Basa that he was negotiating
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 Ghent, Belgium
• He published the El Filibusterismo.
• July 5, 1891- Rizal left Brussels for Ghent, a famous
university city in Belgium.
• Rizal reasons for moving to Ghent were;
1.the cost of printing in Ghent was cheaper than
in Brussels;
2.to escape from the enticing attraction of Petite
Suzanne.
• Rizal met two compatriots while in Ghent, Jose Alejandro
and Edilberto Evangelista, both studying engineering in
the world-famed University of Ghent.

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 Ghent, Belgium
• September 22, 1891 - four days after the Fili came off the
press, Rizal wrote to Blumentritt: “I am thinking of writing a
third novel, a novel in the modern sense of the word, but this
time politics will not find much space in it, but ethics will play
the principal role.”
• October 3, 1891 - two weeks after the publication of Fili, Rizal
left Ghent for Paris, where he stayed a few days to say
goodbye to the Lunas, the Pardo de Taveras, the Venturas and
other friends; Rizal proceeded by train to Marseilles.
• October 18, 1891- Rizal boarded the steamer Melbourne in
Marseilles bound for Hongkong during the voyage, Rizal
began writing the third novel in Tagalog, which he intended
for Tagalog readers.
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 Hongkong
• Rizal left Europe for Hong Kong, where he lived from
November, 1891 to June, 1892. His reasons for leaving
Europe were;
1.life was unbearable in Europe because of his
political differences with M.H. del Pilar and other
Filipinos in Spain;
2. to be near his idolized Philippines and family.
• November 20, 1891 - Rizal arrived in Hong Kong. He
established his residence at No. 5 D’ Aguilar Street No. 2
Rednaxola Terrace, where he also opened his medical
clinic.

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 Hongkong
• December 1, 1891 - Rizal wrote his parents asking their
permission to return home. On the same date, his brother-in-
law, Manuel T. Hidalgo, sent him a letter relating the sad news
of the “deportation of twenty-five persons from Calamba,
including father, Neneng, Sisa, Lucia, Paciano and the rest of
us.”
• The Christmas of 1891 in Hong Kong was one of the happiest
Yuletide celebrations in Rizal’s life: For he had a happy family
reunion.
• January 31, 1892- Rizal wrote to Blumentritt, recounting
pleasant life in Hong Kong. His family very impressed with the
English government.
• Rizal successfully operated on his mother’s left eye so that she
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 Borneo, Colonization Project
• Rizal planned to move the landless Filipino families
Filipino families to North Borneo (Sabah), rich British
owned island and carve out of its virgin wildness a “New
Calamba”.
• March 7, 1892- Rizal went to Sandakan on board the ship
Menon to negotiate with the British authorities for the
establishment of a Filipino colony.
• Rizal looked over the land up the Bengkoka River in
Maradu Bay which was offered by the British North
Borneo Company.
• April 20, 1892 - Rizal was back in Hong Kong. His brother-
in-law (Hidalgo), objected to the project for it was anti-
nationalistic act to have a colony.
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 Borneo, Colonization Project
• Governor General Eulogio Despujol – the present
governor-general (1891-1892)
• December 23, 1891- first letter of Rizal to Governor
Despujol.
• March 21, 1892- Rizal’s second letter and gave it to a ship
captain to be sure it would reach Governor Despujol’s
hand, in this second letter, he requested the governor
general to permit the landless Filipinos to establish
themselves in Borneo.
• Despujol could not approve the Filipino immigration to
Borneo, alleging that “the Philippines lacked laborers”
and “it was not very patriotic to go off and cultivate
foreign soil.”
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 Writings in Hongkong
• “Ang Mga Karapatan Nang Tao- which is a Tagalog translation
of “The Rights of Man” proclaimed by the French Revolution
in 1789.
• “A la Nacion Espanola” (To the Spanish Nation) - which is an
appeal to Spain to right the wrongs done to the Calamba
tenants.
• “Sa Mga Kababayan” (To my Countrymen)- explaining the
Calamba agrarian situation.
• “Una Visita a la Victoria Gaol” (A Visit to Victoria Gaol)- it
contrasted the cruel Spanish prison system with the modern
and more humane British prison system.

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 Writings in Hongkong
• “Colonisation du British North Borneo, par de Familles
de Iles Philippines” (Colonization of British North Borneo
by Families from the Philippine Islands)- an article in
French which Rizal elaborated on the same idea in
another article in Spanish.
• “La Mano Roja” (The Red Hand) - it denounces the
frequent outbreaks of intentional fires in Manila
• Constitution of La Liga Filipina - the most important
writing made by Rizal during his Hong Kong sojourn,
which was printed in Hong Kong, 1892

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 Decision to Return in Manila
• May, 1892- Rizal made up his mind to return to Manila.
• This decision was spurred by the following:
1.to confer with Governor Despujol regarding his
Borneo colonization project;
2. to establish the La Liga Filipina in Manila;
3.to prove that Eduardo de Lete was wrong in
attacking him in Madrid that he was being
comfortable and safe in Hong Kong, had
abandoned the country’s cause.
• June 20, 1892- Rizal wrote two letters which he sealed,
inscribed on each envelope “to be opened after my
death” and gave them to his friend Dr. Marques for
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ACTIVITY: HISTORICAL TIMELINE

1. In a one-page long bondpaper create a historical timeline of the Travels and Life Abroad of
Rizal.
2. Choose significant events only.
3.You can choose any design of the historical timeline .
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