baker] authorities. 37 



pavlovsk on June 24:, 1805, and together V' isited the Pribilof islands, 



Unalaska, Kodiak, Sitka, and California, and afterwards returned to 



Russia. 



La Perouse. 1786. 



In 1785 Louis XVI of France organized a scientific exploring expe- 

 dition on a lavish scale and placed it under the command of Com- 

 mander Jean Francois de Galaup de la Perouse. 



Two vessels were fitted out for the purpose — La Boussole, com- 

 manded bv La Perouse, and B Astrolahe^ commanded by Captain de 

 Langle. Sailing from Brest on August 1, 1785, via Cape Horn and 

 the Hawaiian islands, they arrived on June 24 in sight of the north- 

 west coast of America in the vicinity of Yakutat. From this point 

 they cruised southward,' surveying as they went as far as Monterey, 

 California, arriving there on September 15. Here they remained till 

 the 24th and then took final leave of the American coast. 



La Perouse was an unfortunate navigator. At Lituya bay, which 

 he entered and surveyed, 26 of his ship's company were drowned in 

 the tide bore at its entrance. Both ships with all hands were lost in 

 1788 or 1789, and for many years their fate was a mystery. It has 

 been solved, however, and some of the wreckage of the ships has been 

 recovered and recently placed on exhibition in the French Naval 

 Museum in Pans. 



An ehiborate report upon this expedition, in 4 quarto volumes, with 

 an atlas, was published by the French Government in 1797, entitled 

 Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde. 



LiXDEXBERG, 1838. 



In 1838 a survey and chart was made of the head of Lynn canal and 

 the lower reach of the Chilkat river by a Mr. Lindenberg. This chart 

 was published as an inset or subsketch on Russian Hydrographic chart 

 1396, published in 1848. It does not appear who this Lindenberg Avas. 

 Perhaps it was the Captain Lindenberg who was in command of the 

 Russian American Company's ship Prince MensUkof in 1852. Gre- 

 wingk records (p. 418) that Lindenberg surveyed Admiralty island 

 and Chilkat river in 1838. 



LisiANSKi, 1804-05. 



Krusenstern (Admiral A. J. von) and Lisianski (Captain Urey), in 

 the ships NadezMa (hope) and Neva, sailed from Cronstadt around 

 Cape Horn and thence to the North Pacific on a voyage to carry sup- 

 plies to the Russian American Company and to make exploration and 

 discoverv. This was the first of a series of circumnavigations by the 

 Russians. Sailing from Cronstadt on October 6, 1803, Lisianski 

 reached the Hawaiian islands on June 4. 1804, and proceeded thence 

 to St. Paul, Kodiak, arriving on July 14, 1804. Here he heard that 



