1. We have Delaney, we have Nootka, we have the China trade.

2. Delaney will as easily sell Nootka to the Americans if they offer him the same monopoly.

3. As Horace Delaney's widow, I also own half of the trading post at Nootka Sound.

4. The assignation they were trying to make her sign gave Nootka to the Crown and only the Crown.

5. Ah, well, you will understand, then, that private ownership of the Nootka Sound landing ground represents an opportunity for our enemies who dispute its sovereignty when the time comes to draw the border.