54 GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF ALASKA. [bull. 187. 



dcteriuincd l)y inooii-culmination observations in March and April, 

 ISW. 



On .Miuvh 21, 1800, he set out upon a sledge journey from Camp 

 Colonna northward to the Arctic ocean, where he arrived on April 8. 

 The next day he started back, and reached Camp Colonna on April 17. 

 Later he left Camp Colonna, descended the Porcupine and Yukon 

 rivers, and proceeded to St. Michael, Norton sound, where he was 

 compelled to remain until July, 1891, when he departed for Washing- 

 ton. He returned to Alaska in 1892 on boundary work, but owing to 

 ill health was obliged to give it up. During his stay in Alaska he 

 made a valuable collection of bird and animal skins, which he pre- 

 sented to the Universit}^ of California. The expenses of this collection 

 he bore personally. He died in Washington on June 13, 1893. An 

 account of his Avork was published in the National Geographic Maga- 

 zine in 1893, Vol. IV, pp. 189-197; see also Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey Report 1890-1891, Part I, pp. 86-88. 



Vancouver, 1792-1794. 



Capt. George Vancouver, R. N., in command of the sloop of war 

 Di'scoiy /'I/, accompanied by the armed tender Chatham under the com- 

 mand of Li(Hit. AVilliam R, Broughton, R. N., made a surveying and 

 exploring voj'age from England to Northwest America and round 

 the world in 1790 to 1795. An account of this voyage was published 

 by the British Government in 1798 in 3 quarto volumes accompanied 

 by a folio atlas. 



This is an admirable account of an admirable piece of work and is 

 one of the standard works for the region it covers. 



On April 1, 1791, the two vessels departed and, rounding the Cape 

 of Good Hope, arrived off the coast of California on April 17, 1792. 

 Thence Vancouver cruised northward, surveying and mapping the 

 coast as far as Fitzhugh sound, whence he went to Nootka. He then 

 cruised southward to San Francisco and Monterey, and about the 

 beginning of 1793 went to the Hawaiian islands. 



Leaving these on March 30, 1793, he returned to the north, arriv- 

 ing off Cape Mendocino on April 26, whence he proceeded to Fitz- 

 hugh sound, joined the Chatham there, and resumed his surveys. 

 During the season of 1793 he carried these northward along what is 

 now British Colum))ia and in Alexander archipelago to Sumner strait. 

 Quitting Alaska and returning southward, he surveyed the California 

 coast from Monterey southward to San Diego and down to latitude 

 30" on the coast of lower California, finishing on December 15, 1793, 

 and going thence to the Hawaiian islands. Quitting these on March 

 15, 1794, Vancouver returned on his last voyage to northwest Aiper- 

 ica, arriving off Chirikof island, just west of Kodiak, on April 2. 

 He then surveyed eastward, in Kodiak, Cook inlet, Prince William 



