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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The fur trade lasted barely 20 years, until the otter was extinct along the coast, but new white settlers were coming for other resources.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. In 1785 Europeans and Americans began coming to the area for sea otter furs, which peaked at a price of $4,000 per pelt. Everything they made was a work of art, decorated with designs and animal depictions from their stories and myths. Cedar roots and bark were crafted into hats, ropes, mats, and clothes. It was used for large dugout canoes and for construction of plank houses. Red cedar wood was a critical resource because of its strength and resistance to rot. They often moved to temporary bases in summer or at other times to take advantage of seasonal food resources. The area was plentiful in seafood (whales, sea lions, seals, halibut, salmon, and shellfish) and land wildlife (deer, elk, and bear). They inhabited a rugged coast backed by mountains.
The name has come to represent several native groups in the area who speak a similar language, although it was not a name they used themselves. The native peoples inhabiting part of the coast of Vancouver Island were called the Nootka by Captain James Cook when he explored this area in the 1778. A technology portrait exists in the game files. A Nootka technology called "Nootka Harpoon" was planned.A unit portrait exists in the game files. A third unit was planned for the Nootka, the Nootka Knife Fighter.The Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) language belongs to the Wakashan language family. Spawns a Nootka War Chief, and enables Nootka Settlements, Native Embassies and Heroes to retrain him.
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