On the Concept of National Community
MY CONFERENCE WITH DR. RIZAL IN DAPITAN
From the “Memoirs of the Katipunan and the Philippine Revolution” by Dr. Pio A. Valenzuela
With a roundtrip first class ticket which cost me P60, and under the assumed name of Procopio Bonifacio, I embarked on the steamship Venus on Monday, June 15, 1896, between 10 and 11 o'clock in the morning, accompanied by Raymundo Mata, a blind man, and Rufino Magos, both residents of Barrio Binakayan, Kawit,
Cavite, who were deck passengers. On the boat as first class passengers were three women—Josephine Bracken,
Narcisa Rizal, and Angelica Lopez—who were common-law wife, sister, and niece, respectively of Dr. Rizal.
The Venus called at Romblon, Capiz, Iloilo, Cebu, Dumaguete, Dapitan and Sindangan.
We arrived at Dapitan between 5 and 6 on the afternoon of June 21. The Venus dropped anchor in Dapitan Bay at a spot about 100 meters from the quay and 500 meters from the house of Dr. Rizal.
From the Venus my two companions and I transferred to a banca, the three women to another, and we proceeded directly to the house of Dr. Rizal, where we went up between 6 and 7 in the evening.. The doctor was not in his house at that moment; but after a quarter of an hour he arrived from the quay and greeted us.
Narcisa Rizal made the introductions.
In about ten minutes a man appeared with a letter for the doctor who, after reading it, told me that the Spanish governor2 of Dapitan desired an interview with him in order to learn about his visitors. The doctor, in a gray cotton suit and a cap, went to the governor's house. Upon his return he told me that the governor had asked him about the persons who had arrived at his house, to which he replied that they were ,a man suffering from eye trouble, his physician (myself), and an attendant, with which information the governor was satisfied.
That night we ate supper together pleasantly, during which the conversation revolved around the small green mango fruits on the table which served
From the “Memoirs of the Katipunan and the Philippine Revolution” by Dr. Pio A. Valenzuela
With a roundtrip first class ticket which cost me P60, and under the assumed name of Procopio Bonifacio, I embarked on the steamship Venus on Monday, June 15, 1896, between 10 and 11 o'clock in the morning, accompanied by Raymundo Mata, a blind man, and Rufino Magos, both residents of Barrio Binakayan, Kawit,
Cavite, who were deck passengers. On the boat as first class passengers were three women—Josephine Bracken,
Narcisa Rizal, and Angelica Lopez—who were common-law wife, sister, and niece, respectively of Dr. Rizal.
The Venus called at Romblon, Capiz, Iloilo, Cebu, Dumaguete, Dapitan and Sindangan.
We arrived at Dapitan between 5 and 6 on the afternoon of June 21. The Venus dropped anchor in Dapitan Bay at a spot about 100 meters from the quay and 500 meters from the house of Dr. Rizal.
From the Venus my two companions and I transferred to a banca, the three women to another, and we proceeded directly to the house of Dr. Rizal, where we went up between 6 and 7 in the evening.. The doctor was not in his house at that moment; but after a quarter of an hour he arrived from the quay and greeted us.
Narcisa Rizal made the introductions.
In about ten minutes a man appeared with a letter for the doctor who, after reading it, told me that the Spanish governor2 of Dapitan desired an interview with him in order to learn about his visitors. The doctor, in a gray cotton suit and a cap, went to the governor's house. Upon his return he told me that the governor had asked him about the persons who had arrived at his house, to which he replied that they were ,a man suffering from eye trouble, his physician (myself), and an attendant, with which information the governor was satisfied.
That night we ate supper together pleasantly, during which the conversation revolved around the small green mango fruits on the table which served