Captain Simon Metcalfe: Pioneer Fur Trader in the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii and China, 1787-1794Biography of Simon Metcalfe (d. 1794) an American sea captain who was the first to hunt sea otters on the Northwest Coast between Alaska and California and to hunt seals on Kerguelen Island in the Antarctic, as well as one of the first to trade between Hawaii and China. |
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The Early Fur Trade | 26 |
Captain Metcalfe and Sons Fur Traders | 83 |
At the Hawaiian Islands 1789 and 1790 | 101 |
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