Gabriel Franchère, _Voyage_ (French original, published at Montreal in 1820; English translation published in New York, 1854); Ross Cox, _Adventures on the Columbia River_ (London, 1831); and Alexander Ross, _Adventures_ (London, 1849). We reprint the first and third of these. Footnote 2: For a brief account of the discoveries of the North-west Coast, see Thwaites, _Rocky Mountain Exploration_ (New York, 1904), chap. i. For notes on Vancouver and Drake, see Franchère’s _Narrative_, volume vi of our series, notes 2, 66. Further references to this _Narrative_, in the following notes, will be to that reprint.—ED. Footnote 3: For brief sketch of John Jacob Astor, see Franchère’s _Narrative_, volume vi. of our series, note 8.—ED. Footnote 4: For the history of the great fur-trade companies, see Turner, “Character and Influence of the Fur Trade in Wisconsin,” Wisconsin Historical Society _Proceedings_, 1889; Chittenden, _History of American Fur Trade in Far West_ (New York, 1902); J. Long’s _Voyages_, volume ii of our series, preface. The Mackinac Company, composed of British subjects, was formed before the surrender of the Upper Lakes posts to the Americans (1796). It operated chiefly in the West and South-west; and in 1807, Americans on Lake Ontario fired upon its brigade. See Michigan _Pioneer and Historical Collections_, xxv, pp. 250–257. This company was a source of dispute between Canada and the United States until Astor purchased its stock. At the time of sale, the North West Company’s partners held a controlling interest.—ED. Footnote 5: The word “Oregon” was not an appellation of the Spaniards, but appears to have first been employed in 1778 by the English traveller, Captain Jonathan Carver (concerning whom see J. Long’s _Voyages_, volume ii of our series, note 5). On the meaning thereof, see Oregon Historical Society _Quarterly_, June, 1900; also H. H. Bancroft, _History of Oregon_ (San Francisco, 1886), i, pp. 17–25.—ED. Footnote 6: For brief biography of these partners of the Pacific Fur Company, see Bradbury’s _Travels_, volume v of our series, note 4; Franchère’s _Narrative_, notes 9, 10.—ED. Footnote 7: Concerning Mackenzie’s discoveries, see Franchère, note 4. McKay accompanied Mackenzie upon his second voyage to the Pacific, not upon his first expedition to the Arctic.—ED. Footnote 8: Relative to Hunt, Crooks, McClellan, and Miller, see Bradbury’s _Travels_, volume v of our series, notes 2, 3, 72; for Clarke, see Franchère, note 81.—ED. Footnote 9: For what is known of these clerks, see Franchère, notes 76, 84. For Robert Stuart, see Bradbury’s _Travels_, in our volume v, note 117.— ED. Footnote 10: Compare the following description of the voyage of the “Tonquin” with that of Franchère; on the “Constitution,” Captain Thorn, and the Hawaiian Islands, see _ibid._, notes 18, 19, 21.—ED. Footnote 11: