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CHAPTER XI. 



1792 to 1796. 



Vancouver and Broughton arrive on the American Coasts in 1792, and meet with 

 Gray, who informs them of his Discovery of the Columbia Puver — The Strait of 

 Fuca surveyed by Vancouver, Galiano, and Valdes — Negotiations between Van- 

 couver and Quadra at Nootka — Vancouver's Injustice to the Americans — 

 Broughton's Examination of the lower Part of the Columbia River — Vancou- 

 ver's Proceedings at the Sandwich Islands — He completes the Survey of the 

 North- West Coasts of America, and returns to England — The Spaniards abandon 

 Nootka — Conclusions with Regard to the Dispute between Great Britain and 

 Spain, and the Convention of 1790. 



The viceroy of Mexico, count de Revillagigedo, on learning the 

 results of the voyages of Fidalgo, Q,uimper, and Malaspina, along 

 the north-west coasts of America, ordered three other vessels to be 

 prepared, for continuing the exploration of those coasts. In one of 

 them, the corvette Aransasu, Lieutenant Jacinto Caamano was 

 directed to seek, particularly near the 53d degree of latitude, for 

 the mouth of the Rio de Reyes, through which Admiral Fonte 

 was said to have sailed, in 1640, north-eastward, into a lake com- 

 municating with the Atlantic ; while Lieutenants Dionisio Alcala 

 Galiano and Cayetano Valdes were to survey the Strait of Fuca, in 

 the small schooners Sutil and Mexicana. These vessels sailed from 

 San Bias in the spring of 1792, and arrived in May at Nootka Sound, 

 whence they soon after departed on their respective expeditions.* 



Captain Bodega y Quadra, the superintendent of the marine 

 department of San Bias, was at the same time despatched to 

 Nootka, to take the command of the forces in that quarter, and to 

 treat with Captain Vancouver, who was expected to arrive there in 

 the following summer, with regard to the lands and buildings 

 claimed by British subjects, in virtue of the first and second articles 

 of the convention of 1790. He was instructed, in case it should 



* The works which have served principally as authorities for the accounts in this 

 chapter are — the journal of Captain George Vancouver, three vols. 4to., published 

 at London in 1797 — the journal of Galiano and Valdes — and the manuscript journal 

 of the voyage of the American brig Hope, written by her captain, J. Ingraham — with 

 others, to which reference will be made 



