![]() James has tribal tattoos all over his body on his chest, neck, stomach, arms and thighs, adequately covered by clothing. James is a man in his late twenties with a well-proportioned build, unshaven oval face marked by some scars, and blue eyes. During his training at the East India Company, James proved to be an outstanding cadet, skilled in all manner of tasks. He believes he can hear the dead sing to him, and has multiple hallucinations of events in his past and present. James has beliefs and rituals learned from his stay in Africa, making him odd in the eyes of the British. However, James is a man capable of being charitable and friendly with those few who counts among his allies. His irascible temperament is imputed to the same mental illness that afflicted his mother. He has proven to be both mentally cunning and physically ruthless, thinking ahead of his enemies and being able to overpower his attackers. Finally, in the year of our Lord 1802, he took himself off to Africa.ĭelaney is a no-nonsense former corporal of the East India Company with an inclination to violence and insubordination. He tried to recruit other boys to go down the river to India, to trade with Red Indians, to take gold from the Aztecs. And a fight with a bear in Chancery Lane, a rebellion against the cooks for bad custard, started by him, and he raved about fortunes and hidden treasures. According to Benjamin Wilton's researchers, James "set ablaze of a Navy boat in an experiment with oil and mashed potatoes while drunk. After an initial brilliant career as a cadet in Sir Stuart Strange's regiment, during which he excelled in all disciplines, in 1800 he began his insubordination towards the officers. At the age of eleven, in the year 1798, three years after his mother's death, James was put in as a cadet at the East India Company Military Seminary in Woolwich by Horace Delaney and his new bride. James Keziah Delaney was born in 1787 to Horace and Anna Delaney. 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.Head of the Delaney Nootka Trading Company 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. ![]() After staging a motive to arrest her, Solomon Coop offered the woman a reward for the Nootka Treaty. The news of the widow had also come to Solomon Coop thanks to his network of spies scattered around London. 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. 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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