Simon Metcalfe was a British-born American surveyor and one of the first American maritime fur traders to visit the Pacific Northwest coast.
Olowalu, Maui
John Young, Simon Metcalfe's boatswain, became military adviser to King Kamehameha
The maritime fur trade, a ship-based fur trade system, focused largely on acquiring furs of sea otters and other animals from the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast and natives of Alaska. Entrepreneurs also exploited fur-bearing skins from the wider Pacific and from the Southern Ocean.
The settlement of Grigory Shelikhov on Kodiak Island
Captain James Cook
The launch of the North-West America at Nootka Sound, 1788
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