THE PINEDA MONUMENT. 369 
in the same year, states that the monument was then almost 
completely destroyed. 
According to all verbal accounts that I have been able to 
secure, the monument still stood at the time of the American 
occupation in 1898, but was then in a very ruinous condition. 
On my first visit to it in the early part of the year 1904, nothing 
remained but the square foundation, all parts above the surface 
of the ground having been removed. The granite slab bearing 
the inscription was left near the foundation, but was later 
removed by the authorities of the City of Manila and has been 
placed in the center of a small triangular grass plot at the 
intersection of three streets in the parked portion of the 
Cementerio del Norte. 
The stone of which the monument was constructed was soft 
volcanic tuff, locally known as Guadalupe stone, and is said to 
have been removed by the person or persons who rented the 
land between the years 1898 and 1902. The tract of land, on 
which the monument was erected, was purchased by the Phil- 
ippine Government in the year 1903, for the site of an agricul- 
tural experiment station, for which, in part, it is still used. 
The inscription on the granite slab, said by Colmeiro, Jordana, 
Montero, and others, to have been written by Haenke, is as 
follows : 
ANTONIO PINEDA. 
TRIBUNO. MILITUM. 
VIRTUTE. IN. PATRIAM. BELLO. ARMISQUE. INSIGNI. 
NATURAE. DEMUM. INDEFESSO. SCRUTATORI. 
TRIENNII. ARDUO. ITINERE. ORBIS. EXTREMA. ADIIT. 
TELLURIS. VISCERA. PELAGI. ABYSSOS. ANDIUMQUE. CACUMINA. LUSTRANS. 
VITAE. SIMUL. ET LABORUM. GRAVIUM. 
DIEM. SUPREMUM. ORIIT.“ IN. LUCONIA. PHILIPPINARUM. 
. VI. CALENDAS. lULII. MDCCXCII. 
PRAEMATURAM. OPTIMI. MORTEM. 
LUGET. PATRIA. LUGET. FAUNA. LUGENT. AMICI. 
QUI. HOCCE. POSUERE. MONUMENTUM. 
The accompanying plate, representing the Pineda monument, 
is reproduced from the figure given by Zaragoza in a periodical 
formerly published in Manila, entitled “La Ilustracion Fili- 
pina.” It is, in all probability, the only picture of the monu- 
ment extant. According to Montero,®^ who quotes Jordana, the 
total height of the monument was three and one-half meters. 
“ Apparently a sculptor’s error for OBIIT. 
^'2 (1892) 271. 
^"Hist. Filip. 2 (1894) 322. 
