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Emilio Jacinto

Letter to M. na Pamunuan ng Hilagaan, December 23, 1896

 

 

                                          Source: Archivo General Militar de Madrid: Caja 5677, leg.1.106

 

 

“The bearer of this note,” Jacinto writes, “is the uncle of Juan Malinban, who is your prisoner there” in Pantayanin.[1] Jacinto asks the Mataas na Pamunuan to release Malinban on condition that he is not permitted to return to his hometown. He also asks the Mataas na Pamunuan to hand over a horse and trap (calesa), which Malinban had apparently stolen, to the uncle.  The uncle will then deliver the horse and trap to Jacinto for his personal use – an arrangement that has the consent of the calesa’s owner, who is a kapatid.  Jacinto needs a means of transportation, he explains, because he has returned the carriage he had previously borrowed to San Francisco de Malabon in Cavite. 

 

In a postscript, Jacinto asks whether there is anyone in Pantayanin who knows about electric batteries.  If there is, he would like the Mataas na Sangunian to despatch the person to him, together with some dynamite, a percussion cap with wire and a percussion cap without wire. He has received three electric batteries from Malabon, he says, and wants to test them out before they are put to use in battle.

 

 

 

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Sa M. na Pamunuan ng Hilagaan

 

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Minamahal na mga Kapatid:

 

            Ang taong may dala nito ay siyang mamŕ ng Juan Malinban na inyong ibinilangu diyan.

 

            Ang isa ko lamang na bilang ipinamamanhik sa inyo ay kung mangyayaring ipagkaloob na sa aking Kapangyarihan ang nasabing Juan Malinban, na di ko na naman papayagang makauwi pa ng bayan.

 

            Tungkol sa kabayo ng kalesang kaniyang inaakay ay inyo ding ibigay sa may dala nito, sapagka’y ang nagaari niyaon ay kapatid, at ito nama’y ipinagkakaloob na sa akin; at ako’y walang sukat na magamit ngayon, dahil sa ipinasauli ko na sa Malabon (Tanguay) ang dati kong sinasakyan.

 

            Sa boong pagasa ko na sisirain itong naging kahilingan, kayo’y aking niyayakap ng lubos na pag-ibig.

 

            Ika 23 ng Dbre ng taong 1896.

 

                                                Ang K. Punong-Hukbo

 

                                                Emilio Jacinto

 

Huling Lagda –

 

            Kung sakali’t kayo’y mayroong nakikilala diyang na kaaalam ng paggamit ng pila electrica, ay mangyari lamang na ipadala dito sa akin, at gayon din ang kaputol na dinamita, at isang pistong may kawad at isang wala, sapagka’t ako’y may tinangap nang tatlong pila na galing sa Malabon; at ang hangad ko lamang ay ang ating masubukan muna bago atin gamitin.

 

                        Vale

 

 

 

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[1] The letter is written on a single sheet of paper folded to make four sides.  The text covers three sides, and on the fourth side Jacinto has written “K. P-H.  Sa M. na Pamunuan sa Pantayanin.”   The letter has then been folded again so that this address appears on the outside.  The recipient, probably council president Isidoro Francisco, has written above the text “Sinagot ito ng ika 29 ng Dis ng 1896.  Tinangap ng ika 25.”