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Fig. 12.44 Buddhist
“singing” prayer
bowl (Courtesy of
SAS-INAH)

Fig. 12.45 Bronze Buddhist
guardian male lion

12.10 The Years to Come

Each year, we look out from the beach on to the site of the San Juanillo’s tragedy
(Fig. 12.46). It remains a lonely place. In these sands lie the remains of our “ghost
galleon,” which sailed onto the Baja California shore with a dying crew, lay intact
for a year or more, and was !nally destroyed by a rare storm. These !ndings have
enabled us to reconstruct part of the crew’s story and have given us a remarkable
view of world-wide commercial ties in the 1570s, the earliest decade of the
trans-Paci!c Manila galleon trade. We look forward to many more years of fruitful
research on our “Galleon in the Dunes.”