Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-09-24
81 JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN

a long succession OF flags before the
GWSl Flag was run up to stay over old
II1STHTTH1tl Monterey. And many an early romance
uWNllllUUIl Of peace and war enacted off its
II WVllN II coast in the waters Of the mysterious
III 49, II "Mer du Sud-"
- Columbus reached Spain in 1893
with the news of his discovery Of the
West Indies. Thereupon Pope Alexander vi issued
his Bull Of Demarcation" dividing all lands to be
discovered between Spain and Portugal. In 1899
Vasco da Cana doubled the Cape of Good Hope
and reached India In 1913 Balboa crossed the 18TH
mus of Panama and took possession of the ocean,
In 1921 Magellan sailed through the strait named
after him and named the ocean ''Mare Pacifcum."
He also discovered the Philippines and his follow
ers completed the circumnavigation of the globe
Thus was of the mystery surrounding the
South Sea" cleared up.
Thereupon all Europe was possessed of a desire to
reach the Indies by sailing through North Amer
lea. Cortreal professed to have sailed through
strait north of Labrador in 1900 his Wanted dis
covery appears on the earliest maps as "Fretum
Anium" 1t was reported (1619) that Juan de
Fuoa had sailed from the north Pacific to the At
lantic. And so on
Cortes conquered Mexico 151921 He immediate
ly made plans to send fleet to the Spice islands,
which he believed lay il the Pacific just beyond
the setting SUM- He sailed away to Spain in 1910
never to return to New Spain. Viceroy Mendoza
took up the work and sent Villalobos (1542) to
AhdhS COuquSSL Oh the ILlpOluSS l1S 1d1lSu, out
after seven years of fighting the Spaniards be-
came established in the islands.
Thereupon the king of Spain set up traffic be-
tween America and the Philippines. Every year
"The Manila Galleon" set out from Acapulco,
Mexico, for the Philippines 1t carried much silver
the staple product Of Mexico. 1t was exchanged
for Oriental gods. The westbound galleons were
carried directly across the Pacific by the prevail
ing winds. The return voyage had to be made far
to the northward The round trip took the better
part of year.
England, among other nations, paid not the
slightest attention to Pope Alexander's Bull Of
Demarcation." Francis Drake, for example, after
footing towns and capturing treasure ships on the
Spanish Main went "adventuring" on the Pacific
He swooped down upon the American coast In the
Golden Hind, stuffed his hold with booty and re-
turned to England by way Of the Philippines and
the Indies to divide his loot with Queen Elizabeth
and receive knighthood at her hands, In the very
year of the Spanish Armada Sir Thomas Caven-
dish ravaged the Pacific coast towns of Mexico and
even succeeded in capturing "The Manila Galleon."
In 1743 Commodore George Arson of the British
navy captured the Manila Galleon" off the Philip
pines.
Now, Commodore Arson had quite an interesting
time In capturing the galleon The histories barely
mention It, but fortunately Commodore Anson's
chaplain Richard Walter, M. A., had taste for
writing and left us a fairly complete story Of the
voyage.
1t appears that the Manila commerce was 'pro-
vided with three -four stout ships, that in case
of accident the trade might not be suspended"
1.-THE Manila Galleon" set sail from Manila about
July and arrived at Acapulco in ''the December
January or February following" The return voy-
age took from March to June.
These Manila galleons were large ships for the
tmes-about the size of frst-rate British man.
Of-war. They were "of the burthen Of twelve hun
dred tun and upward, and usually carried from
$50 to 600 hands, passengers included, with fifty
odd guns" The galleon captured by Arson was
the Nostra Signora de Cabadonga. She was COM
manded by Gen. Don Heronmo de Montero She
was much larger than Anson's Centurion having
$50 men and 80 large guns. The British vessel had
aboard PIT hands, "of which nearly 80 were boys":
she carried go guns. The old prints reproduced
show Arson, the battle and Acapulco
The Manila galleons were all the property of
the king Of Spain. The commanding general car
ried the royal standard Of Spain at the main top
gallant masthead The trade was mot laid open
to all the inhabitants of Manila, but was confined
by very particular regulations"
The ships employed therein were found bv tba
King of Spain, who paid the officers and crew:
and the tunnage divided into a certain num-
Der OF bales" all OF the size These were
distributed amongst the converts at Manila bur
principally to the Jesuts, a a donation for the
support OF their missions for the propagation OF
the Catholick Failn; and these converts had a