Note 1 — LETTER BY A SPANISH OFFICER
Reading edition
Spanish, lo que se llevó la trampa; literally, “what the trap carried away with it;” a variant of the phrase llevarselo el demonio. It is translated above in accordance with the definition in Caballero’s Diccionario de modismos (2nd edition, Madrid, 1905), p. 744.
“Fairs” [ferias] here alludes to the annual sale or fair at Acapulco which took place at the arrival of the galleon from Manila; in this case the goods from Filipinas evidently were sold at a loss. ↑