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England, then as now, wide awake for colonial extension, followed 

 the example of Spain and sent, in 1778, two years after the second 

 Spanish expedition, Capt. James Cook, commanding the Resolution and 

 the Discovery, and five years later the Discovery and the Chatham, in 

 the command of Capt. George Vancouver; then in the present century, 

 in search of Sir John Franklin, the expedition of the ship Blossom in 

 1825-1828, Capt. F. W. Beechey commanding, and in 1836-1842 the 

 expedition of Capt. Edward Belcher. 



Supplementing the Government exrjlorations were the English trad- 

 ing expeditions of Capt. George Dixon in the Queen Charlotte, and 

 Capt. Nathaniel Poetlock in the King George in 1786; Captain Hutchins 

 in the Prince of Wales in 1787, and Capt. John Mears in the Nootlca in 

 1789. 



In 1786 France sent out an expedition consisting of the two frigates, 

 Astrolabe and Boussole, in command of Capt. J. G. F. de La Perouse, 

 and in 1791 Capt. Etienne Marchand, commanding the Solide. 



In 1790 the Swedish Government sent to the Aleutian Islands the 

 cruiser Mercury in charge of Captain Coxe. 



American trading vessels were visiting Alaska prior to 1785, but no 

 Government exploration was undertaken by the United States until 

 Commander John Kogers's expedition around the world in 1854-55, 

 and of the Aleutian Islands in 1856 by the United States schooner 

 Fenimore Cooper, in charge of Lieutenant Gibson, United States Navy. 



Returning to Dixon's Entrance, the extreme southwestern point of 

 the Alexandrian Archipelago, which we are entering, is Cape Mazon, 

 near to which, on Kaigahnee Straits, is Jackson, a mission station of 

 the Presbyterian Church to the Haidai tribe. Here in 1881 I estab- 

 lished a mission school with Mr. J. E. Chapman as lay teacher. In 

 1882 he was replaced by Rev. J. Loomis Gould and family, who have 

 faithfully held the fort until the present. Mr. Gould has built up a 

 church of ninety members, and Mrs. A. R. McFarland, under the 

 auspices of the Woman's Executive Committee of Home Missions, a 

 mission home. The day school established by the church in 1881 was, 

 in 1885, turned over to the Government. 



Steaming northward along the bleak and snow-covered mountains 

 of Prince of Wales Island, we pass the small outlying Forrester Island, 

 named in 1774 by Perez as Santa Christina, and by Cuadra as San 

 Bias. Wolf Rock Island and Cape Bartolome are reached all unseen 

 in the storm, and we are off Bucareli, which, with Kasaau Bay, almost 

 cuts Prince of Wales Island in two. This large sound seems to have 

 been a favorite with the early Spanish exploring parties. On the 

 24th of August, 1775, the expedition under Cuadra, being greatly 

 impressed with the location and character of the sound, sent a party 

 on shore, who, after erecting a large wooden cross and celebrating a 

 solemn high mass, took possession for Spain with waving banners and 

 discharge of musketry. The waters were called Bucareli Sound. 



