36 Kenneth S. Latourette, 



About 1802 the trade to the Northwest Coast took on a new 

 phase, trading and sealing voyages along the California coast. 

 This was due partly to the increasing difficulty of obtaining skins 

 by barter with the northern Indians, and partly to newly dis 

 covered sources of furs. In 1802 the &quot;Lelia Byrd,&quot; Cleveland, 

 master, coasted along California, trading for furs with the 

 Spanish settlements. 37 In 1803 tne &quot;Alexander,&quot; Brown, master, 

 and in 1804 the &quot;Hazard&quot; 38 and the &quot;Lelia Byrd&quot; under Shaler, 

 Cleveland s partner, 39 did the same. It was largely illegal trade 

 and ships engaged in it were in danger of capture and confisca 

 tion. 40 In 1803 the &quot;O Cain&quot; of- New York obtained Indian 

 hunters from the Russians at Sitka and went south, hunting on 

 shares. 41 In 1805 John D Wolf, master of the &quot;June,&quot; finding 

 barter unsuccessful, determined to go to California, but sold his 

 ship to the Russians before carrying out his plan. 42 In 1806 



couver, Voyage, 2:135). In 1803 the ship &quot;Boston,&quot; John Salter, Master, 

 was attacked by the natives at Nootka Sound in revenge for a fancied 

 insult, his vessel was captured, and all but two of the crew were 

 murdered. (The Adventures of John Jewett, only survivor of the crew 

 of the ship Boston, during a captivity of nearly three years among the 

 Indians of Nootka Sound in Vancouver Island. Ed. by Robert Brown. 

 London, 1896. Secondary accounts are in Bancroft, Hist, of N. W. Coast, 

 1:312, and in Meany, Vancouver s Discovery of Puget Sound, pp. 39-43.) 

 In 1803 and 1804 the &quot;Atahualpa&quot; of Boston, Adams master, lost some 

 men by an Indian attack (page 171 of Shaler [?] Journal of a Voyage 

 Between China and the Northwestern Coast of America, made in 1804. 

 In the American Register or General Repository, vol. 3 (1808) pp. 137-175). 



37 Cleveland, Voyages of a Merchant Navigator, and Cleveland, Voyages, 

 i : 155-249- 



38 Herbert Howe Bancroft, History of California, 7 v., San Francisco, 

 1884-1890. 2:15. 



3U Shaler, Voyage between China and the Northwest Coast. 

 J &quot;The Mercury&quot; was captured and condemned in 1813, Bancroft, Hist, 

 of Calif., 2 : 268. He quotes Mercury, Expediente de investigacion sabre 

 Captura de la fragata American &quot;Mercurio&quot; 1813, MS. Several other 

 ships were similarly treated in 1816. Ibid., 2 : 275. 



41 Bancroft, Hist, of N. W. Coast, 1 : 319. He quotes Boston on the 

 N. W. Coast, MS., pp. 11-12. 



42 John D Wolf, A Voyage to the North Pacific and a Journey through 

 Siberia more than half a century ago, Cambridge, 1861 ; and Patterson, 

 Narrative of Adventures and Sufferings, are accounts of the same voyage 

 by two men who were on it. 



