The bibliography of the Pacific is enormous. There is, indeed, a record of discovery and exploration on the Pacific coast almost as large as that of New France or New England. Only a few of the principal books can be mentioned here; but in most of these will be found good bibliographies which will point the reader to original sources, if he wishes to pursue the subject. ON DRAKE. _Drake and the Tudor Navy_, in two volumes, by Julian Corbett (1898); _Sir Francis Drake_, by the same author (1800), in the 'English Men of Action' series; _The World Encompassed_, by Francis Fletcher (1628). See also the article on Drake in the _Dictionary of National Biography_. ON VITUS BERING AND THE RUSSIANS. _Peter the Great_, by Williams (1859); _Peter the Great_, by Motley (1877); Coxe's _Discoveries of the Russians_ (1781); Lauridsen's _Vitus Bering_ (1885); Laut's _Vikings of the Pacific_ (1905). ON COOK AND VANCOUVER. Cook's _Voyage to the Pacific Ocean_ (1784); Ledyard's _Journal of Cook's Last Voyage_ (1783); Sir Walter Besant's _Captain Cook_ (1890), in the 'English Men of Action' series; Kitson's _Captain James Cook, the Circumnavigator_ (1907); Vancouver's _Voyage of {133} Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean_ (1798). See also the articles on Cook and Vancouver in the _Dictionary of National Biography_. ON THE EXPLORATIONS OF MACKENZIE, FRASER, AND THOMPSON. Mackenzie's _Voyages_ (1801); Burpee's _Search for the Western Sea_ (1908); _Fur Traders of the Far West_, by Alexander Ross (1855); Laut's _Conquest of the Great Northwest_ (1908); _Canada and its Provinces_, vol. iv (1914). ON THE FUR TRADERS BEYOND THE ROCKIES. Morice's _History of the Northern Interior of British Columbia_ (1904); _Sir James Douglas_, by Coats and Gosnell (1908), in the 'Makers of Canada' series; _Canada and its Provinces_, vol. xxi (1914); Bancroft's _History of the Northwest Coast_ (1884), and his _History of Oregon_ (1888); Lyman's _History of Oregon_ (1903). For an exhaustive statement of the Oregon Boundary Question, see the article, 'Boundary Disputes and Treaties,' by James White, in _Canada and its Provinces_, vol. viii. {135} INDEX Alaska, discovered, 20-2; Russian regime inaugurated in, 44. Aleutian Islands, discovery of, 22-9, 37; the hunt for furs on, 33-44. Aleuts, their hard lot at the hands of Russian fur traders, 34-9; take their revenge, 39-43. Anian, strait of, 8, 9-10. Astor, John Jacob, forms the Pacific Fur Company, 99, 100, 106. Astoria, the fur-post on the Columbia, 108, 110; sold to the North-West Company, 113, 115, 118. Astorians. See Pacific Fur Company. Baranoff, a Russian trader on the Pacific Coast, 74. Barkley, Captain, locates Strait of Juan de Fuca, 57, 59. Bering, Vitus, his first expedition to the North Pacific, 13-15; his second expedition, 15-33, 45; his death, 28, 46, 52. Blanshard, Richard, governor of Vancouver Island, 130. Bolduc, Father, with Douglas on Vancouver Island, 128-9.