![]() ![]() The cargo was traded for silver, which was brought back to Manila and then traded to the Chinese emperor. Only one or two galleons sailed east for Acapulco each year, packed with thousands of pounds of treasure. It also threatened the life of an economy. To lose a galleon was to experience death hundreds of times over: hundreds of men and boys foundering in inky black water, hundreds of hearts ceasing to beat, hundreds of lungs inhaling water. The ship was a Manila galleon, a “castle of the sea,” dispatched across the vast Pacific Ocean from the Philippines to Mexico and carrying the finest goods known to man: ivory statues, delicate china, exotic spices, golden silk. ![]() For more than three centuries, the Nehalem-Tillamook people have told the tale of a ship that crashed there, a devastating collision of man and nature. Its shoulders are cloaked in a dense forest of spruce and cedar, where elk find refuge in mists and leave hoofprints in the mud. The area’s indigenous people named the peak Neahkahnie ( knee-ah- kah-knee), “the place of the god”-a wide, tall mountain that appears to rise out of the Pacific Ocean like a giant climbing out of a bathtub. ![]() The story goes like this: Sometime around the year 1694, a ship wrecked near the foot of a mountain in Oregon. Leah Sottile is a journalist whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, Playboy, The California Sunday Magazine, Outside, The Atlantic, and Vice, among other publications. ![]()
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