Unit 15 - Kaugalian, Halagahin, at Pagkatao (Customs, Values & Character)

SALIN NG PAG-UUSAP

Setting:  MAGELLAN’S ship anchored at  Zuluan, when these islandswere notyet called Pilipinas.  The DATU is in a balangahi, a type of boat.

Time: April, the year 1521

TAGAPAGSALAYSAY:  Before the Spaniards colonized the islands now known as  Pilipinas from the name of the King of Spain Philip II, the people were freely trading with different nations.

MAGALLANES:  Come.

ALIPIN NG DATU:  (Remains silent)

MAGALLANES:  (Throws a red cap and other things tied to a wood) Come aboard  Here are some gifts.

DATU: (To the  ALIPIN)  Give the captain a large bar of gold and a basketful of ginger.

ALIPIN:  Yes sire Datu.  (But Magellan would not accept)

MAGALLANES:  (Aside to himself or to the audience) We should impress upon these people that we regard our merchandise more highly than their gold. If not we would spoil our trade with them.

MAGALLANES:  (To the ALIPIN)  We are not enemies but friends.  Can we have food brought to us?  We are very hungry because of the long voyage at sea and our food is gone.  Where can we get food?

TAGAPAGSALAYSAY:  The DATU.has six or eight people with him. He will embrace MAGALLANES and they will exchange gifts.

MAGALLANES:  I want us to become casi casi.  Brothers.

DATU:  (To ALIPIN)  Tell him I also want him to become like a true brother.

ALIPIN:  Sire, according to our esteemed Datu, he would like thee to be his brother also.

TAGAPAGSALAYSAY:  MAGALLANES would show many merchandise, silk and textiles of different colors, artillery that are being fired in their presence so that the people of the islands became so fearful.

MAGALLANES:  Look attentively at this person armed like a soldier in the midst of three men with swords and daggers.

TAGAPAGSALAYSAY:  The three would strike the person on all parts of the body but  he will not be wounded.  Because of what (he) witnessed, the DATU was not able to speak out of fear.

MAGALLANES:  One of those is equivalent to 100 of my own men.

DATU:  Yes (respect particle) indeed.

DATU:  (To himself)  You should really become my brother.  I welcomed them with open-arms just like all the others who drop anchor here in the islands in order to trade. 

MAGALLANES:  I have two hundred men in each ship who are armed the same way.

TAGAPAGSALAYSAY:  The next day, Easter Sunday. In Magellan’s ship. MAGELLAN sends this message to the DATU.

MAGALLANES:  We are not going to your place in order to eat but in order to say mass.
                       
TAGAPAGSALAYSAY:  Even though Magellan had said this, the DATU had two pigs slaughtered.  Even then, the people were by nature kindhearted.  Today we call this “hospitality.”  When the time came for the mass to be said, fifty of Magellan’s men landed without armor but carrying other arms and wearing their best clothes.

MAGALLANES:  Before we come, discharge the canon six times as a sign of peace.

TAGAPAGSALAYSAY:  Meanwhile, at the shore.

 DATU:  (To himself)  Are they intimidating us?  When you were not here yet, my heart was at peace.

TAGAPAGSALAYSAY: Before the mass, the place was first consecrated and Magellan sprinkled musk water on the entire bodies of the two kings. While the host was being elevated, all the artillery of the ship were fired at the same time.

ALIPIN:  After the mass, Magellan had his men perform swordfight which pleased the two datu.  Afterwards, Magellan had a cross brought and erected on the summit of the highest mountain.

MAGALLANES:  You will be saved from lightning, thunder, neither storms will harm you. When any of our ships come, they would know that we have been here and you and your property will be saved from thieves.  Whenever any of your men is captured, they will be set free immediately just show the sign.

DATU:  (To ALIPIN) Tell (him) in short, they are colonizing us.

ALIPIN:  (T0 MAGALLANES)  We are most grateful (respect particle)  We will do everything you want.  We are your humble servants.

MAGALLANES:  Do you have enemies?  We, and our King are the most powerful.  If they do not want to be under our protection, we will destroy them. We want peace.

ALIPIN:  That is why, all of us voluntarily had ourselves baptized.

TAGAPAGSALAYSAY:  According to their record, 800 people had themselves baptized including the queen, women, men and including the children. By means of the cross that had the power of the amulet and the superior artillery of the Spaniards, the brute savages and wild Indians became Christians