American-Australian Relations (Classic Reprint)
Levi, Werner Excerpt from American-Australian RelationsThe United States of America initiated its Far Eastern trade in February 1784, when the Empress of China under Captain Green left New York for Canton. Many other ships soon fol lowed in her wake, and in 1789 fifteen United States vessels were in Canton.1 They usually sailed by way of Cape Verde, the Cape of Good Hope, and the Strait of Sunda, but sailing conditions were such that this route could be us...