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- Title:
- Ship Loads
- Description:
- Diego Bobadilla, SJ’s “Relation” covers 1616-1634. Natives used sailboats and CARACOA. The latter vessel had 3 layers of stations for rowers on each side. Manpower could reach 100 natives per boat. CARACOA were used as trading ships to carry dried fish, wine, salt, wax, cotton, coconut and other like merchandise in an active coastal trade. Spanish traded wax, storax, Ivory, bezoar in Borneo and Camboa. Two or three Portuguese ships from Macao brought silk, musk, precious stones and fragrant woods. Chinese traders noted in earlier posts brought persimmon and other fruit, parasols, porcelain, cloths the black ones used by Indians, paste gems, thread and the most esteemed whitest silk. Galleons larger than those in the Mediterranean were built at Manila where abaca was used for rigging. The galleon also transported missionaries. A subsidy was added for an outfit of clothing “they are won’t to wear,” a mattress, a blanket and straw for the voyage. Missionaries often lacked enough funds to cover meals while waiting for their galleons to leave Spain and Mexico. Part of their small royal subsidy ended up as handouts demanded at ports by petty bureaucrats. Burdens were heavy for Bobadilla and his brothers.
- Subjects:
- Sailboats Caracoa Ships Trading
- Exhibition:
- Diego Bob 1616
- Source:
- Visayan Karakoa from Francisco Ignacio Alcina, 1668. Wikipedia.
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
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Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Ship Loads", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll094.html