[3] Aguinaldo is the Spanish for Christmas-box.
[4] Part of a conversation which I had with Emilio Aguinaldo at his house at Cauit (Cavite Viejo) on July 26, 1904.
[5] Cauit signifies, in Tagálog, Fish-hook.
[6] Sun͠gay signifies, in Tagálog, Deer.
[7] Imus. The history of this place is interesting. In the 18th century a banished Spaniard of distinguished family settled there and supplied water to the natives for irrigation purposes. Some years afterwards, on the death of his wife, this gentleman returned to Spain and left the place in charge of a friar, Francisco de Santiago. As the owner never claimed the property, it fell definitely into the possession of the friars. A church was erected there at the peopleʼs expense. Later on the friar in charge extorted from the natives material and labour, without payment, for the building of a manor-house, but he was poisoned soon after it was finished. His successor was still bolder, and allowed escaped criminals to take sanctuary in his church to show his superiority to the civil law. After innumerable disputes and troubles with the natives, it developed into a fine property, comprising 27,500 acres of arable land, which the Recoletos claimed as theirs and rented it out to the natives. Its possession was the cause of the important risings of Páran and Camerino (vide pp. [105], [106]) and many other minor disturbances.
[8] “Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas,” por el Dr. Antonio de Morga, anotada por José Rizal. Published in Paris by Garnier frères, 1890.
[9] “El Filibusterismo (continuacion del ‘Noli me tángere’).” Published in Ghent by F. Meyer-Van Loo, 1891.
[10] Father Mariano Gil died in Spain in the spring of 1904.
[11] Rizalʼs brother and sister were keeping (in 1904) the “Dimas Alang” restaurant, 62, Calle Sacristia, Binondo (Manila). It is so named after the pseudonym under which their distinguished brother often wrote patriotic articles.
One of the ten annual official holidays, or feast days, appointed by the Civil Commission is “Rizal Day,” December 30.