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and with immediate results—results that became of the greatest importance eventually. In 1788 some Boston merchants sent out two vessels—the Columbia, Captain Kendrick, and the Washington, Captain Gray—to engage in the fur trade. In 1789, exchanging ships, Gray took the Columbia to China and thence to the United States, returning to the Coast in 1791, Kendrick, with the Washington, remaining on the Northwest coast during Gray’s