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one of the seven chiefs who assented to the cession. It is not 

 necessary to show what inference the natives of the Sandwich 

 Islands might draw from a comparison between the favor thus 

 shown to the murderer of citizens of the United States, and the 

 trial and execution of the persons who were charged with causing 

 the deaths of the officers of the British vessel at Woahoo.* 



Soon after these transactions, the British navigators took their 

 final leave of the Sandwich Islands, and, returning to the north-west, 

 coasts of America, examined every port which they had not previ- 

 ously visited, from the peninsula of Aliaska, eastward and southward, 

 to Queen Charlotte's Island. They began at Cook's River, and, 

 having ascertained that, no great stream entered that bay, they 

 changed its name to Cook's Inlet, which is now most commonly 

 applied to it. They then proceeded to Prince William's Sound, the 

 shores of which were completely surveyed ; and thence along the 

 bases of Mounts St. Elias and Fairweather, to the great opening 

 in the coast, near the 58th degree of latitude, which had been called 

 by Cook Cross Sound. In Cook's Inlet and Prince William's 

 Sound, they visited all the Russian establishments, of which Van- 

 couver presents full and satisfactory accounts ; and, having succeeded 

 in proving that the place in which Bering anchored on his last 

 expedition could be no other than that called Admiralty Bay, at 

 the foot of Mount St. Elias, on the east, they gave to it the name of 

 Bering's Bay, and as such it generally appears on English charts : 

 the Russians call it the Bay of Yakutat. 



Through Cross Sound, Vancouver passed into a labyrinth of 

 channels, some among islands, others running far inland, and termi- 

 nating in the midst of stupendous mountains ; and, having succeeded 

 in threading nearly all these passages, particularly those taking a 

 northern or eastern direction, and thus joined his survey with that of 

 the preceding year, he considered his task accomplished. He had 

 made known the existence of an almost infinite number of islands, 

 between the 54th and the 58th parallels, in the position assigned 

 to the Archipelago of St. Lazarus, in the story of Fonte's voyage : 

 but whilst a part of that story thus seemed to be confirmed, the 

 remainder was supposed to be entirely disproved, as no great river 



* Tamaahmoto did not, however, scruple to declare, two years afterwards, that he 

 would take the first vessel which might come within his reach ; and so little effect 

 had the executions at Woahoo, that Captain Brown, of the British ship Butterworth, 

 was killed, in January, 1795, by the natives of that island, in an attack which they 

 made on his vessel with the intention to take her. — See Broughton's account of his 

 voyage in the Pacific, p. 43. 



