![]() He sold the furs in China for a handsome profit, beginning an era of the Maritime Fur Trade.Ĭaptain James King FRS 1750 – 1784 was an officer of the Royal Navy. The next European to visit Nootka Sound after James Cook was the British trader James Hanna in August 1785. The British also became increasingly active in the region. The Spanish began to challenge the Russians, with Pérez\'s voyage being the first of many to the Pacific Northwest. The Russians had established a growing fur trading system in Alaska. The earlier Spanish and British names for the Sound swiftly went out of use.Īt the time, the Spanish monopolized the trade between Asia and North America, and had granted limited licenses to the Portuguese. It may also have simply been based on Cook’s mis-pronunciation of Yuquot, the native name of the place. ![]() There may also have been confusion with Nuu-chah-nulth, the natives\' autonym (name for themselves). He recorded that the native name was Nutka or Nootka, apparently misunderstanding his conversations at Friendly Cove/Yuquot his informant may have been explaining that he was on an island (itchme nutka, a place you can go around). In March 1778, Captain James Cook of the Royal Navy landed on Bligh Island and named the inlet\"King George\'s Sound. The Spanish establishment established at Friendly Cove he gave the name Santa Cruz de Nuca. When Esteban José Martinez arrived in 1789 he gave Nootka Sound the name Puerto de San Lorenzo de Nuca. Pérez named the entrance to Nootka Sound Surgidero de San Lorenzo. Although the Spanish did not land, natives paddled to the ship to trade furs for abalone shells from California. On August 8, 1774, the Spanish Navy ship Santiago, under Juan Pérez, entered and anchored in the inlet. It separates Vancouver Island and Nootka Island. Nootka Sound is a sound of the Pacific Ocean, on the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island, in the Canadian province of British Columbia, historically known as King George\'s Sound. ![]() Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable Performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, In His Majesty\'s Ships the Resolution and Discovery. To determine The Position and Extent of the West Side of North America its Distance from Asia and the Practicability of a Northen Passage to Europe. Undertaken, by the Command of his Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. James King A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. This fine original copper-plate engraved antique print of a woman of Nootka Sound, on the West Coast of Vancouver Island, Canada, drawn during a visit by Captain Cook in 1778, during his 3rd and last Voyage of Discovery, was engraved by Robert Benard - after Cooks on-board artist, John Webber - and was published in the 1785 French edition of Capt. Title : Une Femme De L Entreee De Nootka. ![]()
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