34 GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF ALASKA. [hvll.hh. 



Jackson, 1S77-1900. 



Rev. Sheldon Jackson, Pre8l)3^terian missionary and since 1885 

 general auent for education in Alaska, first visited Alaska in August, 

 1877. in tiie interest of schools and missions. He made a second trip 

 on the same errand in 1879. Other visits followed, and since his gov- 

 ernment appointment in 1885 he has made annual visits to the Terri- 

 tory, traveling extensively in various parts on inspecting tours. 

 Reports on this Avork are published annually in the Report of the 

 Commissioner of PMuoation, 



KiiwosTOF AND Davidof, 1803. 



Two Russian naval officers, Nikolai Alexandrovich Khwostof and 

 Gavril Ivanovich Davidof, were in the employ of the Russian Ameri- 

 can Company in 1802-1801. They left St. Petersburg in April, 1802, 

 and went overland to Okhotsk, arriving in August "of the same year." ^ 

 Thence they sailed to Kodiak, conferred wdth Baranof, and returned 

 to Okhotsk, whence they returned overland to St. Petersburg, arriv- 

 ing there in January, 1804. Davidof published in Russian an account 

 of this journey, in 2 volumes, St. Petersburg, 1810-1812. See also 

 Journal of the Russian Hydrographic Department, 1852, Vol. X, pp. 

 391-433; also Bancroft's History, pp. 458-459. 



KoTZKiuTE, 1816-17. 



By the liberality of Count Rumiantzof, Russian counselor of state, 

 in 1815 the l)rig Rurlk was fitted out for exploration in America with 

 reference to a Northwest Passage. Lieutenant Otto von Kotzebue, son 

 of the distinguished author, and who had accompanied Krusenstern on 

 the Neva in 1803-1806, was placed in command. Accompanied by the 

 savants Choris, Chamisso, and Eschscholtz, he sailed fromCronstadton 

 July 30, 1815, and, rounding Cape Horn, arrived in Petropavlovsk on 

 June 19, 1816. Sailing from there on fJuly 18, he landed on St. Law- 

 rence island on the 27th, passed through Bering strait on the 31st, and 

 on August 3 entered the sound which now bears his name. This he 

 explored and mapped, as also the region about Bering strait and St. 

 Lawrence island. He then sailed to Unalaska, San Francisco, and the 

 Hawaiian islands. From here he returned to Unalaska the following 

 year (1817), refitted, and went to St. Lawrence island. Through ill 

 health he gave up further exploration and returned to Russia, arriving 

 in Cronstadt on August 3, 1818. A full account of this voyage was 

 published in 1821, both in Russian and in German. An English trans- 

 lation by H. E. Lloyd was published the same vear. 



Kotzebue was born at Revel on December 19, 1787, and died there 



on February 13, 1846. 



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> Bancroft (H. H.) History of Alaska, 8°, San Francisco, 1886, p. 458. 



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