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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, Père, 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.
Meares, English sea-captain, 223-226, 227, 235, 254, 264, 267, 272, 273, 322.
Meares' Voyages, cited, 290 n.
Medals, the Drake, 168; of Gray expedition, 215, 241.
Medvedeff, Denis, 88, 96, 97-98; murder of, 104.
Medvednikoff, commander at Sitka, 308.
Mercury, Cook on the, 180.
Michael, Kolosh chief, 308, 310.
Middleton, Captain, 174.
Morai, the, Hawaiian burying-place, 198, 201, 202.
Morris, Robert, and Ledyard, 254.
Motley, John Lothrop, cited, 4 n.
Mottley, John, cited, 4 n.
Mount Baker, 270.
Mount Edgecumbe, 46-47, 189, 331.
Mount Hood, 280.
Mount Olympus, 235.
Müller, S., scientist, 12 n., 14 n.; cited, 32, 6l, 295.
Murderers' Harbor, 222.
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Naplavkof, conspirator, 334-335.
New Albion, Drake's, 164, 173, 182, 183, 184; Gray expedition off, 218; Vancouver's expedition sights, 267; Vancouver takes possession of, 271.
New Archangel, modern Sitka, 314, 333.
New Zealand, explored by Cook, 181.
Nicholson, William, edits Benyowsky's memoirs, 128 n.
Nilow, governor of Kamchatka, 116-120.
Nombre de Dios, storehouse of New Spain, 140; Drake's raid, 141-142.
Nootka, Cook's vessels at, 186-189, 248; Gray at, 223-227, 232, 238; Vancouver's conference with Spanish at, 276-279.
Nootka Indians, Cook visits, 185-189.
Nordenskjöld, explorer, 209 n., 295 n.
Norfolk Sound.
Northeast Passage, the, 158-159, 172; Drake's conclusions regarding, 161; Parliament offers reward for discovery of, 174; English agitation over, 174-175, 181; Cook's efforts to discover, 182-196; Captain Clerke decides there is no, 209; Vancouver's attitude on question of, 265-266; Vancouver proves the non-existence of, 275, 286-290; the Fuca legend concerning, 275 n.
Northwest-America, launching
Norton, Moses, 175.
Norton Sound, Cook explores, 195.
Nuchek Island, Baranof at, 322-324.
Nutting, Gray's astronomer, 214.
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Ochotyn, Saxon exile, 123-124.
Ofzyn, Bering's lieutenant, 36, 38, 40.
Okhotsk, Bering's expedition at, 16.
Olympus, Mount, 235.
Oomnak Island, 84-85; sulphur at, 92; sea-otter on, 98; Korovin's adventures at, 102-103; Medvedeff and crew massacred at, 104.
Oonalaska, otter-hunting headquarters, 69, 79, 82, 98; sulphur at, 92, 103; Korovin's experiences at, 98-101; Cook at, 195-196; Ledyard's visit to, with Cook, 250-253.
Oregon and California, Greenhow's, 241.
Oregon and Eldorado, Bulfinch's, 241.
Oxenham, with Drake, 142.
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Pacha, Drake's vessel, 141.
Pacific Company, 212.
Pallas, Northern Settlements by, 295 n.
Palliser, Sir Hugh, 179.
Pareea, Hawaiian chief, 198, 203.
Pelican, Drake's vessel, 147, 148; renamed Golden Hind, 150.
Perpheela, Ledyard's guide, 249.
"Peso," defined, 154 n.
Peter the Great, 4-10; analogy between Cook and, 176.
Petroff, Ivan, cited, 105 n., 295.
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.
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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.
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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.
Ryumin, Ivan, Russian account of Benyowsky by, 129.
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Saanach coast, sea-otter on, 69.
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.
Savelief, Sidor, 48.
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.
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.
Silva, Nuno, Drake's pilot, 159, 167 n.
Silver Map of the World, 168.
Simpson, Voyage Round World by, 295 n.
Sitka, Indians massacre Russians at, 50 n., 307-310, 332; as capital of Russian America, called Archangel Michael, 306; Russian American Fur Company founds New Archangel on site of, 314, 333; Baranof's career at, 330-336.
Sitka Sound, Chirikoff in, 46-52; sea-otter in, 66, 79; Vancouver ends his explorations at, 289.
Society Islands, Cook's first visit to, 180-181; second visit, 182.
Solovieff, Cossack hunter, 105.
South Seas, Cook's voyage to, 180-181.
Spanberg, Martin, 11, 13, 14, 16, 18, 21.
Sparks, Jared, Life of Ledyard by, 243 n., 262 n.
Staduchin, explorer, 296.
Stejneger, Dr. Leo, x, 41 n., 72 n., 295 n.
Steller, George William, 14 n., 20, 23, 25, 26-27, 30, 33, 38-40, 41, 42, 53-55, 60.
Steller's Arch, 39.
Stephanow, Hippolite, 108, 110, 125, 127.
Straits of Fuca, Cook's conclusion as to non-existence of, 185, 222, 264; Gray sails near, 223; Gray explores, 227, 235, 269; Vancouver's arrival at and exploration of, 268-270, 273-275.
Straits of Magellan, 135; Drake's passage of, 150.
Sulphur at Oonalaska, 92, 103.
Sunday Harbor, 325.