Some ships of the clipper ship era, their builders, owners, and captains; . came Russell & Co., and had a career rarely equalledin the Chinese trade. John Perkins Gushing, who had beena representative of J. & T. H. Perkins in China, was one ofthose who had much to do with the starting of the firm, ashe transferred to Russell & Co. a portion of the commissionbusiness which had grown too large for Perkins & Co. tohandle. The cause of the Opium War, which interrupted trade fora time, was a peculiarly flagrant piece of smuggling, which soaroused the Chinese government that its commissioner appeare
Some ships of the clipper ship era, their builders, owners, and captains; . came Russell & Co., and had a career rarely equalledin the Chinese trade. John Perkins Gushing, who had beena representative of J. & T. H. Perkins in China, was one ofthose who had much to do with the starting of the firm, ashe transferred to Russell & Co. a portion of the commissionbusiness which had grown too large for Perkins & Co. tohandle. The cause of the Opium War, which interrupted trade fora time, was a peculiarly flagrant piece of smuggling, which soaroused the Chinese government that its commissioner appeared 10 SOME SHIPS OF THE CLIPPER SHIP ERA at the foreign settlement, demanded the opium, and dumped itinto the ditches. The trouble was finally adjusted by Englandcompelling China to pay an indemnity, and trade was opium had been brought for some time from India in theswift-sailing vessels, or clippers, we have already described,and was smuggled into Canton by various means. As all for-eigners lived in a narrow suburb on the river and were never. BRENDA allowed within the city, business was transacted with Chinesemiddlemen, one of whom, Houqua, was ever the warm friend ofRussell & Co. The Brenda, a sister-ship to the Minna, was one of thelast of the opium clippers, and, like all of these ships, was beauti-fully modelled, carried clouds of canvas, and was very fast. Asthe Chinese pirates were numerous, she went heavily armed andhad a large crew. She was built in 1852 at Portsmouth, and wassent to China for Russell & Co.
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