Talk:Chinese Embassy
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Travel Times[edit]
At dinner on the Allegiance, Ye Bing says that the embassy travelled from Canton to England on four "East Indiamen" ships (one "unhappily slow").
This site says, "By 1800, the average East Indiaman could carry 1,200 tons of cargo. The trading pattern for China tea usually meant the East Indiamen set sail from Britain in January, sailed round the Cape of Good Hope at the southern-most tip of Africa and arrived in China in September. They would load up that year's tea harvest and set off again, and depending on the wind and weather, aim to arrive back in Britain by the following September."
That suggests a one-year travel time for the embassy's outbound journey. --Wombat1138 13:11, 21 August 2011 (MDT)
