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“Another pushed along the coast to Prince William Sound and Cape St. Elias, the 
latter of which was located by Behring in 1741. In 1788 another of Shekelofi’s 
ships visited Prince William Sound, discovered Yakutat Bay, and made a thorough 
exploration of Cook’s Inlet. In the meantime, in 1786, Gehrman Pribylov, a Musco- 
vite ship’s mate, sailed from Ounalaska in a small sloop called the ‘‘St. George,” 
discovered the islands which bear his name, located in the heart of the Behring’s 
Sea, and now far famed as the only seal rookeries in the known world. ; 
‘“BARANOFE’S MISSION. 
“‘In 1790 the Shekeloff Company placed at the head of all enterprises in the new 
country that restless spirit whose energies clinched Russia’s dominion to her posses- 
sions in North America, Alexander Baranoff. Arriving at Kodiak, he changed the 
head-quarters of the Company to the harbour of St. Paul, where the village of that 
name now stands, and the next year one of his skippers passed round the extremity 
of the Alaska Peninsula and along the north-western coast to Bristol Bay, discover- 
ing Kviehak River and the Lake Llamna, and crossed the portage to the mouth of 
Cook’s Inlet, thus finding the safest and quickest means of communication between 
Shekeloff Strait and the Behring’s Sea. 
“Tn 1794 Baranoff established a ship-yard at Resurrection Bay, on Prince Willliam 
Sound. Aboutthis time the first missionaries of the Greek Church arrived, and 
117. + Missions were established at Kodiak, Ounalaska, and Spruce Island. The next 
year Baranoff extended his operations and trading posts to Yakutat Bay. Fol- 
lowing this was the consolidation of all Russian interests in North America, giving 
rise to the Russian-American Company, which was chartered the year that Baranoff 
founded Sitka, 1799. The possessions and supremacy Russia gained under this Cor- 
poration have heen so universally acknowledged and widely understood as to scarcely 
need comment. Under this Company, chartered by the Crown, patronized by nobil- 
ity, sustained by the sinews of consolidated capital, and led by the tireless energy 
of Baranoff, new explorations and Settlements inevitably followed. 
‘‘As early as 1806, aside from trading posts and Settlements along the Aleutian 
Islands, we find the Russian-American Company had established fourteen fortified 
stations from Kodiak to the Alexander Archipelago, now known as South-eastern 
Alaska—one at Three Saints Harbour, one at St. Paul Island, one on the Island of 
Kodiak, one off Afognak Island, one at the entrance of Cook’s Inlet, three on the 
coats of the inlet, two on Prince William Sound, one at Cape St. Elias, two on 
Yakutat Bay, and oneat New Archangel, on the Bay of Sitka. 
“ALONG THE COAST, 
“After the death of Baranoff, in 1819, his successor in charge of the affairs of the 
Company, Lieutenant Yanovsky, made extensive explorations of the coast and main- 
land above the Alaska Peninsula. One expedition explored and made a preliminary 
survey of the coast from Bristol Bay as far as the mouth of the Kuskovim River, 
discovering and locating that stream and also the Island of Nunivak, on parallel 
60th degree, in Behring’s Sea. Another passed beyond the mouth of the Yukon to 
Norton’s Sound, and another entered the Nushegak River just above Bristol Bay, 
pushed into the interior, and crossed the mountains and tundras into the valley of 
the Kuskovim. Following these, in 1824 and 1826, were the explorations and surveys 
of Ethloin and Luedke, further north on the coast of the mainland. 
“Tn 1824 that eminent divine of the Greek Church, Bishop Veniamanoff, visited 
the coast between Bristol Bay and the Kuskovim, establishing Missions, chapels, and 
churches. Previous to this time, in 1815, Lieutenant Kotzebue, under the patronage 
of Count Rumiantzo, had discovered and surveyed Kotzebue Sound and the Arctic 
coast of America as far as Cape Lisburne. Lieutenant Tebenkof, of the navy, in 
1835 established Missions and redoubts at St. Michael’s, on the Norton Sound, and in 
1838 an expedition fitted out by him located Point Barrow. Meanwhile, expeditions 
had penetrated into the interior. Glazunof ascended the Yukon as far as Nulato, 
and made the first portage between that river and the Kuskovim in 1836, while 
Malakof reached the same point from the redoubt established by Veniamanoff on the 
Nushegak, by way of that river and the Kuskovim. 
“They were followed by Lieutenant Zagoskin, of the Imperial Navy, who in 
1842-43 with five assistants made extensive explorations of basins of the Yukon and 
Kuskovim, a voluminous journal of which is now in print. 
‘“UNBROKEN POSSESSION. 
“This brings us to the close of the first century of Russian discoveries and occu- 
pation in North America. It is needless to follow further, as the twenty-five years 
intervening between 1842 and the date of the Treaty of the United States are but a 
continuation and repetition of Russian occupation and supremacy of this territory. 
That possession was never changed or broken until it passed to the United States 
