Hong Kong Hong-Kong, February 16, 1888 Miss Trinidad Rizal My dear sister Trining: From this island of Asia I am writing you in order to give you some advice, for we all need advice, beginning from the Archbishop and ending with F. Baldomero Real. I do not speak about...
Rizal without the Overcoat
15 February 1888
Tuesday I ordered a suit at Robert Lang's. P16. I took a ticket and my trunk from the dock. I stepped on the Asiatic continent on the Chinese side as I did before in Malacca. Laurel, the procurator to the Dominican Fathers came to visit me. They have more than 700...
15 February 1888
Manila An anonymous letter, well-known, and signed "A Friar" calls Rizal ungrateful — It expresses the attitude of the friars toward the educated Filipinos — Friars doing everything humanly possible bring Filipinos out of darkness — The Government at fault for the...
14 February 1888
Monday Musical instruments. Two disks, a large drum with the sound of a guitar. Violin and cornets. They throw refuse from one side to the other when they get mad.
13 February 1888
Monday They light long bunches of firecrackers from a window. Some can be fifteen varas[1] long, mixed in parts with large ones which explode almost like a bomb. At the end of this string of firecrackers is a little box containing a large number of other firecrackers...
12 February 1888
Sunday The Chinese festival continues; the firecrackers continue. Yesterday I visited the Protestant, Catholic, and Muslim cemeteries. The first was beautiful on because of the trees and the cleanliness [p.8] of its roads and tombs. I saw the tombs of the Masons. The...
11 February 1888
Saturday. Today, Saturday, the Chinese New Year festival [begins], it will last until Monday. From 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon they stirred [p.7] up a colossal noise, igniting reventadores [firecrackers] in huge packages lasting the whole night. I was invited to...
10 February 1888
Friday I ordered a portrait made of Sra. Ypia.[1] [Olimpia] [1] Olimpia Rizal de Ubaldo (1854-1887) elder sister of Rizal. She was with child when Rizal, newly minted physician, returned to the Philippines in 1887. Rizal assisted at the delivery, the baby died and so...
10 February 1888
Hong Kong Hongkong, February 10, 1888 Victoria School My dear Parents and Brothers: When you receive this letter you can still answer me, with the assurance that your letter will still reach me here, because I am thinking of sailing on the Oceanic or on the Gaelic....
9 February 1888
Thursday The Zafiro set out [from the Fragrant Harbor’]. I wrote letters to Manila. [Cost was:]Postcard, three cents. Postage stamps, five cents. For foreign countries, ten cents. [p.6]