Philippine Islands, Benyowsky's visit to, 126; Drake passes by, 165. Phillips, marine with Cook, 204-205. _Phoenix_, Baranof builds, 326. Pickersgill, explorer, 175. Pilcher, sailor with Drake, 152 n. Pintard, John Marden, 211, 229. Pissarjeff, Major-General, 16. Pizarro, Francisco, 134. Pleneser, artist, 41. Point Breakers, 185. Point Possession, 271. Point Turn-Again, 192. Porter, Rev. E. G., lecture by, 241. Portland Canal, 228; Gray sails up, 230; Vancouver's exploration of, 286. Portlock, J. E., 78, 209 n., 254, 290 n. Port St. Julian, Doughty executed at, 147-149. Prince of Wales, Cape, 193, 208. Prince of Wales Island, 228. Prince William Sound, sea-otter in, 66; named by Cook, 191; Russian settlements on, 287, 306, 322-329. Prybiloff Islands, otter and seal found on, 79. Puget, Peter, 235, 266, 269, 271, 273, 277, 282. Puget Sound, explored, 270-271, 273. _Purchas' Pilgrims_, cited, 152, 167, 275. Pushkareff, Sergeant, 84-88. Q Quadra, Don, 238, 240, 273, 322; Vancouver's conference with, 277-279. Quebec, Cook with Wolfe at, 180. Queen Charlotte Island, discovered, 227; Captain Kendrick at, 230-232. R Radisson, vii, 7, 239. _Resolution_, Cook's ship, 181-209. Reward offered by Parliament for discovery of Northeast Passage, 174. Rezanoff, Nikolai, 306, 311, 314-315. _Robert Anne_, Benyowsky's vessel, 127. Roberts, Gray's surgeon, 214, 216. Ross, Russian California colony, 315. Russian American Fur Company, 67, 128 n.; chartered, 306; early vicissitudes of, 307-314; at New Archangel (Sitka), 314; in California, 315. _See_ Baranof. Ryumin, Ivan, Russian account of Benyowsky by, 129. S Saanach coast, sea-otter on, 69. St. Lawrence Island, 11, 12. _St. Paul_, Bering's vessel, 17; Chirikoff in command of, 20, 22, 24 ff., 60; voyage of, 45-53. _St. Peter_, Bering's vessel, 17, 20, 23 ff.; wreck of, 44-45. _St. Peter_, the second, 58-59. _St. Peter and Paul_, the, 113, 117; Benyowsky's cruise in, 122-126. Sands, Mr., of New York, 254. Sandwich Islands, Cook's visit to and death at, 196-205; Gray stops at, 228-229; conduct of fur traders who visited, 283-284; Vancouver's actions at, 284-285. San Francisco, Vancouver at, 281-282. Sauer, cited, 27, 260, 295. Savelief, Sidor, 48. Sea cows, 41, 53. Seals, 42, 56-57, 67. Sea-otter, 42, 53, 56; habitat of, on Aleutian Islands, 63, 66-67, 82-83; Bering's men reap a fortune from, 63-64, 79; influence of, on exploration of North Pacific, 65; description of, 65-66; methods of hunting the, 67-78; prices commanded for fur of, 76; figures of numbers killed, 79; the early hunters of, 80-105; Cook's trade in, 187; Gray's bargain, 228. Selkirk, Lord, 303. Serdze Kamen, 12 n., 195. Seymour, Henry, 243. Shelikoff, Gregory Ivanovich, 303-306, 315. Shelikoff, Natalie, 304. Shevyrin, with Drusenin, 92-97. Shields, English shipbuilder with Baranof, 325-326, 328. Shumagin Islands, 30, 192. Silva, Nuno, Drake's pilot, 159, 167 n.
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