 This is early in the time of the fast tea clippers that literally raced to bring the seasonal tea cargoes to Europe; the "Cutty Sark" (built 1869) was one of the last of the clippers.Fortunes could be made—and lost—in the China tea trade.In 1865, Frederick was recruited by Glover & Co. to supervise the company's tea trade in Nagasaki, the great sea port on the western coast of Kyushu, Japan.