Vikings of the Pacific: The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, EastwardLaut, Agnes C.
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Vikings of the Pacific: The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward
Laut, Agnes C.
America -- Discovery and exploration; Discoveries in geography; Northwest Coast of North America; Pacific Ocean
Gray, Robert, character of, 213; sent by Boston merchants on fur-trading
voyage to the Pacific coast, 213-214; departure of, from Boston (October,
1787), 215-216; rounds Cape Horn and reaches Drake's "New Albion,"
216-218; adventures of, in Tillamook Bay, 219-222; sails to Nootka,
222-223; meets Captains Meares and Douglas, 223-225; in spring explores
Straits of Fuca, 227, 235; takes cargo of furs to China and returns to
Boston (August, 1790), 228-229; leaves Boston on second voyage
(September, 1790), 230; winters at Clayoquot (1791-1792), 232-234; builds
sloop _Adventure_, 233, 234, 325; meets Vancouver expedition, 235,
268-270; discovers and names Columbia River (May, 1792), 236-238, 241,
268, 269; goes to China and returns to Boston (July, 1793), 238; death
of, 238; place of, among discoverers, 238-240; authorities for, 240 n.;
later mention of, 264, 272, 286, 322; Lieutenant Broughton's view of
explorations of, 280.
Gray's Harbor, 236, 241.
Greenhow, cited, 241, 290, 295.
Guatalco, Drake stops at, 159.
Gulf of Georgia, 271.
Gvozdef, discoverer, 12 n.
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Hagemeister, Lieutenant, 335-336.
Hall, Sir James, and Ledyard, 256.
Hancock, Clayoquot renamed, 227.
Hancock, Governor, 229.
Harriman Expedition, the, 72 n.
Haskins, member of Gray's second expedition, 230.
Haswell, Robert, in Gray's expeditions, 214, 216, 220-222, 228, 230, 234,
240, 241.
Hatch, Captain Crowell, 211.
Hawkins, Sir John, 135-139, 166.
Hearne, Samuel, 174, 175, 181.
Heceta, Captain Bruno, 219, 241; quoted regarding Columbia River, 235-236.
Henriquez, Don Martin, 136.
Hoffman, German exile, 108-111.
Hood Canal, explored, 270-271.
Howe, Richard, accountant in Gray's expedition, 214.
Howe's Sound, 274.
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Icy Cape, Cook names, 195.
Inalook Island, 90.
Indians, Californian, and Drake, 162-165, 169-171.
Ingraham, Joseph, 214, 230, 240, 322.
Isle, Louis la Croyere de l', 19, 20, 209; death of, 52.
Isle of Pinos, 141.
Ismyloff, Russian trader-spy, 118, 119, 122, 123, 124, 127, 128 n.; Cook
meets, 196; treacherous letters of, 208; Ledyard's encounters with, 251,
253, 258, 260-261; in service of Russian American Fur Company, under
Baranof, 322, 323.
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Japan, charted by Martin Spanberg, 18; laws to protect the sea-otter
moved by, 67; Benyowsky's adventures in, 126-127.
Jefferson, Thomas, Ledyard and, 255, 261-262.
Jervis Canal, 274.
Johnstone, with Vancouver, 266, 271, 273, 275.
Jokai, Maurus, Benyowsky's life told by, 127.
Jones, Paul, and Ledyard, 255.
Juan Fernandez, _Columbia_ repaired at, 217.
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Kadiak Indians in California, 315.
Kadiak Island, otter-hunting headquarters, 69, 79; Ochotyn at, 124;
Benyowsky visits, 125; Baranof at, 321-329.
Kakooa, Sandwich Islands, 203, 206.
Kalekhta, Aleutian village, 90, 94.
Kamchatka, Bering sails from, 11; Benyowsky in, 113-122.
Karakakooa Bay, Cook at, 197-205.
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