However, our survey suggests that based on the work tasks performed, Slovenian private detectives can be classified into three groups – “business-oriented private detectives,” “typical private detectives” and “multitasking private detectives”. Since there are only around 90 private detectives in Slovenia, they must all have good knowledge of several areas simultaneously. basis and what competences they need to perform their tasks.
Therefore, the aim of a survey presented in the article is to find out what private detectives do on a daily. So far there has been no study on what Slovenian private detectives actually do in the framework of the tasks that are stipulated by law. It has only existed for about three decades, and as such has been rarely researched. The work of private detectives is a young profession in Slovenia. Also valuable would be more mention of merchants of Middle Eastern and Indian origin doing business at Canton, especially if figures could be found on their trade. For example, from botanizing as a hobby to the great efforts to grow tea in India, we can link eighteenth-century ‘natural history’ to the new nineteenth-century phases of plantation agriculture in ways that could be of world-historical importance. Finding additional eyewitness reports could considerably enrich our understanding of the trade and expand our interpretations of the importance of that trade. Their observations contribute to the larger picture of the trade, and they remind us of the variety of visions that make up the human condition, whether at home or far away. They represent a diversity of backgrounds: two hard-living young Englishmen, two plant-collectors, one a Lutheran chaplain and the other a failed priest, and a French-Swiss of good family encountering the worst times in Canton. The five individuals considered in this chapter-Robert Pitt and William Hickey, Pehr Osbeck and Pierre Poivre, and Charles de Constant-provide glimpses of the Canton Trade that are generally not found in more official records. While subjective in nature, these European eyewitness accounts offer a diversity of views and of information regarding Canton. Private memoirs are among the most descriptive documents we have of individual experiences in Canton.
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