Captain Simon Metcalfe, Pioneer Fur Trader on the Northwest Coast, 1787-1794 Book

	List of Illustrations
	Preface
	Introduction
	Chronology
Pt. I	Captain Simon Metcalfe, 1787-1789
1	First Prologue: Simon Metcalfe, Merchant Navigator and Pioneer Fur Trader	1
Pt. II	The Early Fur Trade
2	Sea Otters: Habits and Habitat	26
3	The First United States Trade with China	29
4	Metcalfe's First Visit to the Northwest Coast, 1788	39
5	Metcalfe's Precursors in the Northwest Fur Trade	47
6	Metcalfe's Contemporaries: The Foreign Fur Traders, 1785-1790	55
7	The Nootka Sound Incident, 1789	76
Pt. III	Captain Metcalfe and Sons, Fur Traders
8	Second Prologue: Trading at Canton, Macao, Manila and Nootka Sound	83
Pt. IV	At the Hawaiian Islands, 1789 and 1790
9	The Hawaiian Islands and the Fur Traders	101
10	The First Americans at Hawaii, 1789	106
11	The Massacre at Maui, 1790	109
12	The Seizure of the Fair American	121
13	Convoy in Hawaii's Intertribal Wars	131
Pt. V	Decline, Desolation and Death, 1790-1794
14	Metcalfe's Return to China and the Northwest Coast	135
15	Down to Desolation Island	145
16	Death on the Northwest Coast, 1794	163
	Epitaph	170
	Notes	171
	Bibliography	213
	Index	227