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extracted text: -^mong the foreign scholars who became interested in the poem are Blumentritt, Rost, Kern, Meyer, Minguella, Glanco and Retana. The first four went as far as to study Tagalog in order that they may read Plo rante in the original. The Span ish scholars praised the work lavishly. Balatgas’ other known works include La India Elegante y el Negrito Amate, Mahomet at Constanza, Almanzor at Rosa linda, Orosman at Safira, Don Nuno at Zelinda, Clara Balmori, Nuno Gordoneo, Rodolfo at Rosemondo, Auredata at Astrone, El Amante de la Corona, Abdol at Miserana, Bayaceto at Dorlisca, and others. Most of his works were burned in the fire in Orion in 1892. At his death-bed on February 20, 1862, Balagtas told his wife: “Don’t permit that anyone of our children should ever em brace the writing of poetry as a calling.” Two of his sons, Ceferino and Victor, became poets. Ceferino wrote Pagpupuri sa Virgen Maria and other poems while the literary works of Vic tor were included in an antho logy compiled by the late Hermenigildo Cruz. The achievement of Balagtas is summed up by Director E.B. Rodriguez in this manner: “He fashions a world where justice reigns supreme, where every one finds enjoyment in his rela tion with nature and men . . . such is the world he envisioned — a world of perfection, love and romance.” The Tulingan A lthough the Islands sit on one of the world’s ■^■richest tuna spawning areas, tuna fishing on a scale known in Japan, the United States and the Me diterranean countries does not exists in the Philip pines. Depletion of tuna stocks in Japanese and For mosan home grounds has induced their fishermen to stalk Philippine waters for tuna, reaching out as deep as the Macassar Strait. Local fishermerts acquaintance with tuna is li mited to its midget varieties known in Batangas, Zambales and Pangasinan and other coastal areas bordering the China Sea as “tulingan.” * November 1958 7
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