If these goods did not prove salable at home the ship would make yet another voyage and dispose of them at Hamburg or some other Continental port.

In 1785 a Baltimore ship showed the Stars and Stripes in the Canton River, China.

In 1788 the ship "Atlantic," of Salem, visited Bombay and Calcutta.

The effect of being barred from British ports was not, as the British had expected, to put an abrupt end to American maritime enterprise.

It only sent our hardy seamen on longer voyages, only brought our merchants into touch with the commerce of the most distant lands.