34 Kenneth S. Latourettc, 



and which he named and claimed for the United States.-" He 

 traded along the Northwest Coast during the summer, and sailed 

 for Canton in the fall, arriving in November, 1791, during a 

 temporary prohibition which the Chinese had laid on American 

 ships."" In the spring of 1792, after some trouble over an 

 attempted evasion of the prohibition, he returned to the North- 

 west Coast, and in the autumn went to the Hawaiian Islands, 

 where in November the journal of his voyage ends. 



The years following 1789 show^ed great growth in the Ameri- 

 can Northwest Coast trade. In October, 1790, there arrived in 

 China the brig "Eleonora," Captain Metcalf, and the schooner 

 "Polly," Captain Douglas, from the Northwest Coast, both 

 American,-'' but of these we know little. In October, 1791, the 

 "Margaret" left Boston with James Magee, a part owner of the 

 "Hope,"''- as master. On her arrival on the coast (in the spring 

 of 1792) she found twenty-eight other ships there, of which six 

 were American. For ten years, the number of American ships 

 engaged in the trade continued to increase, until in 1801, the 

 banner year, there were at least fourteen on the coast.^'^ The 



^^ Ibid., and Ingraham, Disc, of some Ids. in S. Pacific, Mass. Hist. Soc. 

 Cols., 2:20-24. Some of these same islands were renamed and new ones 

 were discovered by Joseph Roberts in the ship "Jefferson" early in 1793. 

 Disc, and Desc. of Marquesas, Mass. Hist. Soc. Cols., 4:241. 



^" C. P. Claret Fleurier, Voyage Autour du Monde pendant les Annees 

 1790, 1791 et 1792, Paris, 6 vols., an. vi., 2:368, mentions the same 

 suspension of the fur trade. 



^^ Providence Gazette, Jan. 11, 1791, whicli cites Allen's New London 

 Marine List, June 8, 1791. 



^"Ingraham, Voyage of Hope. The facts of the voyage are from the 

 log of the "Margaret." MS. copy in Essex Institute, Salem. The inspira- 

 tion of the voyage came from the "Columbia," whicli he had found at 

 Canton in 1789 or 90. N. Eng. Hist, and Gen. Reg., 10:201-211. 



■"William Tufts, Account of Vessels in the Sea Otter Fur Trade on 

 the Northwest Coast (which seems to be correct as far as it goes). With 

 the addition of all such omissions as have been detected this shows two 

 vessels on the Coast in 1788, one in 1789, two in 1790, five in 1791, seven 

 in 1792, four in 1793, two in 1796, four in 1797. eight in 1799, six in 1800, 

 fourteen in 1801, nine in 1802, seven in 1803, five in 1804, six in 1805, five 

 in 1806, five in 1807, three in 1808. The list is probably very incomplete, 

 for in 1816 William Sturgis wrote that he had been on the Coast with 

 seventeen American ships. He does not say in what year he was there. 

 Letter to Charles Morris, Aug. 22, 1816. 



