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IORL/MAR/B/404-O Journal of the voyage of the Prince of Wales to North West America and China 1786-1788. IOR/H/800 Papers concerning a Voyage to Nootka Sound. Plenty to satisfy the curiosity of anyone wanting to delve into the themes of Taboo!īarry M Gough, Distant Dominion (University of British Columbia, 1980). Cook's Vocabulary of the Nootka Sound Language’.

There are some journals for Etches’ ships in the East India Company archives as well as many papers about the various Nootka Sound expeditions, including ‘Additions to Capt. If the traders upset the native peoples within the Company's monopoly limits, they were to make reparation so that Company interests were not damaged.

If unsuitable, the ships could go back to North West America and load goods for Europe.

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They needed to be free of any smell which might damage the tea.

If Etches’ ships were sound, they were to be used to carry a cargo of tea and other Chinese goods to London.

Unsold furs were to be offered to the Company's supercargoes at Canton, possibly for sale in India.

Money received for furs and other goods was to be paid into the Company treasury at Canton in return for bills of exchange.

No European goods were to be supplied to Canton.

The ships were not to go southward or westward of Canton or westward of New Holland (Australia).

The ships were to go to America via Cape Horn or the Straits of Magellan and then on to Japan or other places northward to sell furs and other goods.

However strict conditions were laid down, with large financial penalties if broken: The Committee agreed that it was safe for the Company’s interests to grant a licence to the two ships to trade within the limits of its charter. He proposed sending the ships King George and Queen Charlotte to the North West Coast of America where small trading posts would be established to purchase furs and other goods to sell in Japan and China. In May 1785 Etches met with the Directors who sat on the Company's Committee of Correspondence. Etches headed a syndicate consisting of merchants and gentlemen, and one woman - Mary Camilla Brook, tea dealer of London.įrom James Bryce, A Cyclopædia of Geography (London, 1862) BL flickr One of these was the result of a proposal sent to the East India Company in 1785 by Richard Cadman Etches, a London merchant. Experimental voyages were sent out from England, India, and Macao.

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To avoid losing out, the Company had to enter the fur trade itself or license British traders to operate at Canton in China. As China lay within the area of the East India Company’s trading monopoly, it was likely that British merchants would try to circumvent this restriction by entering foreign employment. The Sound is one of many inlets along the Pacific coast of the island.įrom Handbook to Vancouver Island and British Columbia (London, 1862)Ĭaptain James Cook’s third voyage (1776-1780) had shown that there was potential for a maritime fur trade between North West America and China. Nootka is situated on the west coast of Vancouver Island in the province of British Columbia, Canada. Taboo is fictional, but Nootka is a real place and the East India Company had indeed been interested in it in the late 18th century.

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Viewers of the BBC TV series Taboo have heard about Nootka Sound and the machinations of the East India Company to acquire land there owned by James Keziah Delaney.