Narvaez, his discoveries on the Pacific Coast,62-4.
New Caledonia,87,89,122-3. See British Columbia.
Nootka, Cook at,47; English and American traders at,57-58; the Nootka Affair,59-60,61,66,68-9,73.
'North-West America,' the first ship built on the Pacific Coast,57.
North-West Company, the,53,116; and the race for the Pacific,71,99-101,113.
Ogden, Peter Skene, his Oregon brigade,117,119-21.
Oregon, extent of under Hudson's Bay Company jurisdiction,116-17; colonization in,118; hunting brigades of,119-23; acquired by United States,124,125; American immigration into,125-7.
Oregon Treaty, the,127.
Pacific Coast, exploration of,8,12,46-8,52,62-5,66-8,70,125; beginning of struggle for control of,53-4.
Pacific Fur Company, the,71; founded,99,100,109; at Astoria,108,109-10,112; the Clayoquot tragedy,109-112.
Pacific Ocean, 'a closed sea,'1,55-6,65; Drake's raids on Spanish treasure-ships on,5-8; regarding a north-east passage from,9-10,48-9. See Pacific Coast.
Pelly, Sir John, governor of the Hudson's Bay Company,129-130.
Peter the Great, his ambition to make Russia a world-power,11-14.
Petropavlovsk, Bering's expedition leaves,16-17; returns to,30-3.
Piegan Indians, the,102,106.
Pushkareff, his diabolical treatment of Aleuts,38-9.
Quadra, Don Juan Francisco,58; represents Spain in the Nootka Conference,68-9,70.
Quesnel, Jules, with Fraser's expedition,90,104.
Rocky Mountain House,101and note.
Rocky Mountain Portage,75-77,87,88.
Ross, Alexander, his Oregon brigade,117,119-21.
Russia, and the fur trade on the Aleutians,39,43; her interest in the Pacific Coast,44,53-4,70. See Cossacks.
Sandwich Islands, Cook's tragic death on,49-52.
Simpson, Sir George, governor of the Hudson's Bay Company,124,129-30.
Smith, Jedediah, befriended by M'Loughlin in Oregon,125-126.
Spain, her supremacy in the South Seas and in the Pacific,1,12,53-4,55-6,65,74; her treachery at Vera Cruz,2,55; the Nootka Affair,59-60,66,67-9; her explorations on the Pacific Coast,61,62-65,70,74.
Steller, George W., with Bering's second expedition,18,21,27,28.
Stuart, John, with Fraser in New Caledonia,88-90.
Thompson, David, his search for a river to the Pacific,101-106; his descent of the Columbia,104-9,112-13,114,125.
Thorn, Captain Jonathan, massacred at Clayoquot,109-111.
United States, enter the struggle for the control of the Pacific,53-5,67,70,86,124; the Louisiana purchase,86; send an expedition to the Pacific Coast,86; the 'joint occupancy' agreement with Britain,115-16,125; and Oregon,125-8.
Valdes, Don Cayetano, explores the Pacific Coast,64,67-8.
Vancouver, Captain George,46; his exploring expedition to the Pacific Coast,66-8,69-70,74,84,96; represents Britain in the Nootka Conference,68-9.
Vancouver Island,48-9,67-8; colony founded on,128-9,130,131.
War of 1812, and Astoria,113.
Waxel, Lieut., with Bering's expedition,19,24,25.
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