40 GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF ALASKA. [bull. 187. 



cisco do lii Bodega y Quadra, to make explorations north of California. 

 Witli Quadra went the pilot Francisco Antonio Maurelle. On this 

 voyage they discovered, named, and in part surve3^ed Bucareli bay. 

 Four 3''ears later a second voyage was undertaken b}^ the Spaniards. 

 Quadra, in command of Za Prlncesa., and Don Ignacio Arteaga, in 

 connnand of La Favorlta^ with Maurelle as pilot, sailed from San Bias, 

 Mexico, on Februarj^ 11, 1779, and cruised northward as far as the 

 mouth of Copper river, w^hcnce the}^ returned to San Bias, arriving on 

 November 21, 1779. In this voyage the}^ revisited Bucareli ba}^ and 

 made additional surveys there. The published results of these voy- 

 ages, so far as this dictionarj' is concerned, relate chiefly to Bucareli 

 bay. 



A Q,o^y of their map was secured hy La Perouse and published in 

 1798, in the atlas accompanying his Voj^age, plate 26. Also Daines 

 Barrington, in his Miscellanies, 4°, London, 1781, published Mau- 

 relle's journal, yet without the map. The Spaniards were secretive 

 about their explorations, avoided publication, and thus have left little 

 impress on the geography of the region they visited. For references 

 to publications touching this work see Grewingk, pp. 392-393. 



Meade, 1868-69. 



Commander (afterward Rear Admiral) Richard Worsam Meade, 

 U. S. N., cruised through Alexander archipelago in the winter of 

 1868-69 in the U. S. S. Sagincm and made reconnaissance sketches of 

 various places there. An account of this cruise was published by the 

 Navy Department on July 26, 1869, as Hydrographic Notice No. 13 of 

 1869, a pamphlet of 29 pages. The map results were incorporated on 

 United States Hydrographic chart No. 225, a chart of rough and crude 

 appearance, but which has been very useful in making this dictionary. 



Meares and Douglas, 1788-89. 



Capt. John Meares, in January, 1788, in connection with several 

 British merchants resident in India, bought and fitted out two vessels, 

 the Felice and the IpUgenia. Meares commanded the Felice and 

 Capt. William Douglas the IpJugenla. The two ships sailed together 

 from^Typa, near Macao, China, on January 22, 1788, cruised around 

 the Philippines, and, parting company, Meares reached Nootka on 

 May 13, 1788, and Douglas arrived in Cook inlet on June 16, 1788. 

 From Cook inlet Douglas voyaged east and south and joined Me'ares at 

 Nootka on August 27, 1788. Meares cruised and traded about Van- 

 couver island and what is now Washington, and later both oflicers 

 sailed to the Hawaiian islands. They returned and again traded on 

 the northwest coast of America and then sailed to China. 



For an account of their voyage and its results see Meares (John), 

 Voyages in 1788-1789 from China to Northwest America, 4° London, 

 1790. ' 



