Americans in eastern Asia; a critical study of the policy of the United States with reference to China, Japan and Korea in the 19th century . date ever reported. The policy of the Spanish Government placed no specialobstacles in the way of the growth of American tradethough the consul was not recognized. The first consulwas appointed in 1817. The only American firm of importance was that ofRussell, Sturgis and Company, founded about 1825, andsubsequently incorporated in the famous Russell and Com-pany at Canton. The Fur Trade The route around the Horn and across the Pacific toChina was selecte
Americans in eastern Asia; a critical study of the policy of the United States with reference to China, Japan and Korea in the 19th century . date ever reported. The policy of the Spanish Government placed no specialobstacles in the way of the growth of American tradethough the consul was not recognized. The first consulwas appointed in 1817. The only American firm of importance was that ofRussell, Sturgis and Company, founded about 1825, andsubsequently incorporated in the famous Russell and Com-pany at Canton. The Fur Trade The route around the Horn and across the Pacific toChina was selected by fur traders, by circuitous traders atSouth American ports, and occasionally by out of seasonvessels in the direct trade with Canton. The monsoonchanged about the first of November in the China Sea,making difficult the direct approach to Canton from theSouth. Those vessels therefore which did not fall in withthe course of the monsoons and the general tide of trade atCanton, and arrived in the winter, or departed in the sum-mer, often chose to effect their approach to or departurefrom the coast of China by way of the Pacific 36 AMERICANS IN EASTERN ASIA The value of ginseng as an article of exchange at Cantonwas quickly proven to have been over-estimated. The furtrade sprang up to take its place and to create for itself aneven greater importance. As long as the supply of fursheld out and the cost of collection was slight, they met ad-mirably the pressing need of Americans for an article ofbarter. The fur trade falls easily into three classifications: thefurs which were brought from the interior—from the regionof the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley—to the At-lantic ports and then shipped as part of the regular cargoesto Canton; the seal-skin trade with the Falkland Islandsand the South Pacific; and the trade with the Northwestcoast in both land and sea skins. With the continentaltrade through the Atlantic ports we are little concerned,for while the trade wa
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