Brace: Men of affairs, they called themselves, don't you know what they wanted, these gulls?
James: I know already.
Brace: I doubt that.
James: A base of land called Nootka Sound - Nootka was my mother's tribe.
Brace: You're mother came from Naples.
James: He bought some land, and he bought a wife, and he bought them both for gunpowder.