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Some entrepreneurial tradesmen had ventured up the [[Archangel River]] beginning in the 1680s, reaching {{wp|Lake Matapedia|Lake Wikipédia}}. The first formally sanctioned mission of upriver exploration beyond modern-day Krivôrok was the [[Macféden Expedition]] in 1688, which would chart the lake shores and courses of several rivers in what is now the Northeast Territory and Tioga and establish commercial contact with the [[Netansett#Global_trade_and_colonization|Netanic League]]. The commercial significance of Cusinaut to the Occident had previously been limited to its utility as a waystation ''en route'' to Alshar and back, but the discovery of a reasonably advanced economy in the subcontinent's interior aroused new mercantile interest. Occidental trading parties would begin to call upon Netanic depôts with increasing frequency, providing an impetus for the ever-closer encroachment of Occidental outposts. These developments greatly concerned the isolationist leadership of the Netanic League, though strategic considerations would push them toward a conciliatory posture with the opening of [[Lichai]] to foreign merchants.