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
Kendrick, Captain John, 213, 214, 216, 217, 225, 226, 228, 229, 264, 272,
322; adventures of, on Queen Charlotte Island, 230-232; death of, 238.
Kendrick, Solomon, murdered, 232.
Khitroff, in Bering expedition, 26-27, 30-31, 36.
King, Captain, with Cook, 128 n., 186, 192, 198, 200, 203, 206.
Koah, Hawaiian priest, 198, 206, 207.
Kohl, J. G., cited, 168, 295.
Kolosh Indians, massacre by, 307-310, 332; Baranof's encounter with, 330.
Konovalof, bandit, 327-328.
Korelin, companion of Drusenin, 90-91, 92, 94.
Korovin, Ivan, 88, 96; experiences of, at Oonalaska, 97-105.
Koshigin Bay, 319.
Kotches, Russian boats, 295-296, 297.
Kotzebue, dramatist, takes Benyowsky for a subject, 127.
Kotzebue, Otto von, works by, 295.
Kowrowa, Sandwich Islands, 197, 203.
Kracheninnikof, cited, 295.
Krusenstern, Lieutenant, 295, 311.
Kyacks, Eskimo boats, 68.
Kyak Island, Bering's landfall, 26-27, 47 n.; Cook at, 189; Baranof at,
329-330.
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_Lady Washington_, the, Gray sails on, to Pacific coast, 213-219; Captain
Kendrick in command of, 228; last mention of, 238.
Langsdorff, cited, 295.
La Salle, vii, 60.
Lauridsen, Peter, authority on Bering, 12 n., 61 n.
La Verendrye, vii, 7, 19, 60, 177.
Ledyard, Dr., 243 n.
Ledyard, John, corporal of marines with Cook, 181-182, 195-196, 200, 203,
205, 247-252; authority for Cook's voyage, 209 n.; early career of,
242-244; authorities for life of, 243 n., 262 n.; student at Dartmouth
College, 245; works his way to England, 245-246; experiences of, in
London, 246-247; on return of Cook expedition sent to fight against
United States, 252; returns to Groton and deserts from British navy,
252-253; borrows money, goes to Paris, and meets Paul Jones and Thomas
Jefferson, 254-255; in England, 256; walks fourteen hundred miles from
Stockholm around Baltic Sea to St. Petersburg, 257-258; accompanies Dr.
Brown three thousand miles into Siberia, 258-259; joins Joseph Billings'
expedition and reaches Lena River, 260; arrested as a French spy, carried
back to St. Petersburg, and expelled from the country, 260-261; reaches
London and is sent to discover source of Nile, 261-262; dies at Cairo,
262.
Lewis and Clark expedition, 60-61; John Ledyard's influence on, 242, 255,
262.
Lincoln, General, of Boston, 229.
Lisiansky, Captain, 295, 311, 313.
Lok, Michael, 275 n.
Lopez, Marcus, 216, 220; murder of, by Indians, 221.
Lynn Canal, Vancouver's survey of, 288.
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Macao, Benyowsky in, 127, 128.
Macfie, _Vancouver Island_ by, 295 n.
Mackenzie, Alexander, 219.
Madagascar, Benyowsky's adventures and death in, 127.
Magellan, explorer, 134-135.
Magellan, Hyacinth de, 128 n.
Makushin Volcano, 86, 96-97, 105 n.
Maquinna, Indian chief, 276, 277-278.
Marquette, Pere, vii, 7.
Martin, _Hudson's Bay Territories_ by, 295 n.
Martinez, Don Joseph, 227.
_Marygold_, Drake's vessel, 147, 148; loss of, 151-152.
Massacre, of Russians at Oonalaska and Oomnak, 100-105; the Sitka,
307-310, 332.
Mayne, cited, 290 n.
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