the opportunit}' to return to Montei-ey. Bodega and Maurelle in the 

 schooner Sonora, hoAvever, Iccpt on tlieir way. They saw Mount 

 Edgeoumbe about the middle of August, and afterwards hindcd in Port 

 Remedios (the Bay of Ishmds of Cook) and, sailing down the coast, 

 named the strait north of Queen Charlotte Islands, Perez Tnlet, and 

 coasted along (without entering l>aA's, or landing) tlie shores of the said 

 ishuxls. They then returned to Montei'ey, doing a little survejing on 

 the Oregon and Cahf(jrnian coast on the wa3\ 



Subsequently, Cook did not see the Queen Ciiarlotte Ishmds." 



4. "In ItSb', La Perouse coasted along the sliore of the Queen 

 Charh)tte Ishmds, and was the first to suggest tlieir separation from tlie 

 mainhmd. (Arteaga and Bodega, in 1779, did not visit them.) La 

 Perouse, about Aiigust 18, 178G, (Vol. 1., page 422,) coasted along their 

 shores, and named (on his chart) in the X. part, Baie de Clonard, a bay 

 in the south part, Baie de la Touche, the south cape — Caj^e Hector, and 

 some small islands off it, ' Isles Kerouart.' He sailed to the eastward 

 sufficiently to satisfy himself that a deep inlet extended between the 

 islands and the mainland. His Isles Fleurieu are on the main coast, 

 S. and E. of the Queen Charlotte Islands, and are the Princess Roj^al 

 Islaiids of Vancouver. He gave no name to the Queen Charlotte 

 Islands," 



5. " In 1786, Captains Lowrie and Cxuise visited the Que.en Charlotte 

 Islands coast, but left no information on record in regard to it." 



G. •' In August, 1787, Dixon coasted along these Islands, landing 

 nowhere, and named them foi- the first time, also calling the strait north 

 of them after himself CajJtains Colnett and Duncan sailed from Nootka 

 to trade at these islands about the same time, and the folloM'ing year, 

 Duncan sailed through the strait between the Islands and the mainland, 

 which had been assumed b}" the previous voyagers. He also named the 

 Fleurieu Islands (of La Perouse) the ' Princess Royal Islands,' after his 

 vessel." 



7. '' In 1789, Captain Robert Cray, of the sloop Washington, of 

 Boston, explored the east coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands, which 

 had not previously been visited by any wliite man, though Duncan had 

 sailed through the strait, keeping more on the mainland shore. Gray 

 called it "Washington Island, being ignorant of Dixon's name. After- 

 wards, Douglas, the colleague of Meares, also visited this east shore." 



8. "On the 29th of June, 1790, Captain Joseph Ingraham, of the brig 

 Hope, anchored in a harbour on the south-east side of the Queen Charlotte 

 Islands, which he called Magee's Sound, after one of the owners of his 



