 In 1808, the British whaling ship "Scorpion", under the command of Captain Tristan Bunker, arrived at the Chilean coast with the stated purpose of whaling.The real purpose of the trip was to smuggle into the colony a very valuable consignment of British cloth that the ship was carrying in its hull.To this purpose, Captain Bunker contacted Henry Faulkner, an American medical doctor then living in the city of Quillota.