![]() ![]() 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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