In it was put black on white the legal right of the Delaney family over Nootka Sound, obtained together with the purchase of a woman of the Nootka indigenous tribe in exchange for beads and food. The Nootka Treaty, or more formally the Treaty of Nootka, is a document signed between Horace Delaney and the Nootka tribe attesting property passage of Nootka Sound from the indigenous tribe to the Delaney family. There, James finally found the Nootka Treaty. After a bitter conversation about James's bad behavior, Lorna revealed the existence of a secret compartment in the trunk. Ĭornered by James, Lorna had to hand over to his son-in-law the trunk belonging to Horace. The plan was thwarted by the sudden intervention of Benjamin Wilton, who hindered Solomon Coop on behalf of the East India Company. Of his daughter, Zilpha Annabel Delaney, now Zilpha Annabel Geary. Carlsbad,), James was aware of this long before Dumbarton tried snookering him into signing over Nootka Sound to the Company. Not James Delaney (the hulking antihero played by Tom Hardy) but his father, Horace Delaney. James buys a ship for the Delaney Nootka Trading Company, meets old acquaintances. After staging a motive to arrest her, Solomon Coop offered the woman a reward for the Nootka Treaty. Based on what Lorna says to his boss the Countess (a.k.a. The news of the widow had also come to Solomon Coop thanks to his network of spies scattered around London. Delaney Nootka Trading Company is a newly established organisation, headed by James Delaney, with the aim of creating a personal business parallel with that of the East India Company. Sir Strange welcomed the news very well, since Lorna Bow, as a widow, was heiress to part of the inheritance. In the following days, after Lorna Bow appeared as Horace Delaney's widow, Thoyt rushed to the headquarters to inform East India Company's Desk about the news. Since Nootka Treaty was nowhere to be found, Abraham Appleby suggested spreading the rumor that it had been burned, so that the East India Company could take possession of Nootka Sound. As played by Hardy, who is clearly having a ball, Delaney is an unholy cross between Bill Sikes, Heathcliff and Hamlet, with a dash of The Last of the Mohicans’ Hawkeye and a penchant for. Since James was the only beneficiary and heir, Sir Stuart Strange complained about their recent attempts to negotiate with Thorne and Zilpha Geary. When James Delaney returned to London, Robert Thoyt was able to read the last wills of late Horace Delaney as Delaney's attorney.
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