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- Title
The Galleon Cargo: Accounts in the Colonial Archives.
- Authors
LA FOLLETTE, CAMERON; DEUR, DOUGLAS; GONZÁLEZ, ESTHER
- Abstract
The article presents accounts of the cargo of the Manila galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos during its final voyage in 1693 based on colonial archival records. Information is provided about the history of San Francisco Xavier galleon including its smuggling of goods, various trade goods aboard the Santo Cristo including cotton clothes, Chinese silk and ivory sculpture, merchants' marks on Nehalem beeswax blocks, and liquid mercury or quicksilver cargo on the Santo Cristo de Burgos.
- Subjects
TRADE goods; CARGO handling; MANILA galleons; SMUGGLING; CLOTHING &; dress; MERCURY; BEESWAX; HISTORY
- Publication
Oregon Historical Quarterly, 2018, Vol 119, Issue 2, p250
- ISSN
0030-4727
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5403/oregonhistq.119.2.0250