The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-06-03
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men who, with indomitable courage,
sailing in rude vessels through unknown
seas, after an entire fleet had been
lost in the first attempt, doubled the
Cape Of Good Hope, discovered and
settled there. in India, having to fight,
thousands of miles from their country,
the warliko Mussulman and Mongol. And
not satisfied with this, they started a
triumphal march through all the Orr.
ent as far as China and Java and es-
tablished the first Christian missions
in Japan.
''In Abyssinia, in Alden, in Mascate,
in the Persian Gulf, in all the western
coast of India, in Ceylon, in the Ma
laysian Straits, in Java and China, ev-
erywhere in the Orient, where in many
places the natives still, after so many
centuries, speak the old Portuguese
language, are still seen today the an
cient fortresses, monuments of our past
glories.
"These things naturally are not ne "
to us. We begin to learn them as soon
as we begin to talk. But it Is we'll
to recall them, especially in the coun'
tries of this side of the world, where,
| with the usual superb indifference of
youth, they show such a disregard for
TIE past. Is it not opportune to recall
| that Columbus himself, if he did dis
cover America, had to learn in Port
ugal the way it could he doneH
"The older l grow the more intense
has grown my admiration for that his
torical epoch, for its wonderful results
on the general progress of the world;
and also for the men, who so nobly
gave their lives for the glory of theil
country and for the good of humanity
"What meni What splendid menl-
think that some of them, like AlphonsC
d Albuquerque, st. Francis Xavier anC
Don Juan de Castro, realized in theil
lives the ideal of the superman, nov
proposed to Us as a model by some o.
the modern philosophers. Not, how
ever, in the selfish and individualistit
conception of life they teach us, but
on the contrary, in the broader altruis
tic and humanitarian direction. In fac
the spirit of goodness and justice mani
, festeG by those men towards the ma
tives of the countries they occupied
have been unsurpassed. This is so tru
that even today, after centuries, OIL
the anniversary of the death of Alphons
d Albuquerque, bonfres are lighted il
many places in the west coast of India
in respect to the memory of the grea
and just viceroy of whom, after hi
death, the Mussulman kings, whom h
had fought in many battles, said
Albuquerque is not dead, ne has simpl..
gone to command the armies of God il
! heaven
"And also, even today, the tempt
where the body of st. Francis is ez
posed is visited by thousands of In
dams, who, coming from the farthes
regions of India, although non-Chris
tians, leave, just as their Christia
brothers do, their offerings near tn
sarcophagus. Such is their reverence
: for that saint, the worthy companio
! of the conquerors.
Greatly, those were the times whe
. knighthood was in fowerl The time
when the fathers would promise to thei
boys that, if they behaved well, and
behave well meant to fight ten againi
I one hundred, that they would arm thel
7 knights on the Mount Sinai-and the
! were armed.
"Captain, these are few of tn
!, facts, representing centuries Of our hi