GENERAL INDEX. 



Adams, John Q., United States minister 

 at St. Petersburg, correspondence with 

 the Russian government respecting 

 American traders on the north-west 

 coast, 275. Secretary of state of the 

 United States ; negotiations with Spain 

 ch the southern and western limits of 

 the United States, 316. Correspond- 

 ence with the Russian minister at 

 Washington on the ukase of 1821, 

 332. Instructions to Mr. Rush, United 

 States minister at London, on claims 

 of the United States, in 1823, 340. 

 President of the United States ; message 

 recommending the adoption of measures 

 respecting Oregon, 344. 



Aguilar, Martin de, voyage and supposed 

 discovery of a great river on the north- 

 west coast, 92. 



Alarcon, Hernando, voyage up the Cali- 

 fornian Gulf and the Colorado River, 60. 



Aleutian Islands described, 41. Discov- 

 ered, 135. 



Aliaska described, 38. Discovered, 132. 



America. This name first given to Brazil 

 in 1508. Never used by Spanish govern- 

 ment and historians until recently, 48. 



Anian, Strait of, said to have been dis- 

 covered by Cortereal, probably the same 

 now called Hudson's Strait, 47. Voy- 

 ages in search of it, 78. See Urdaneta, 

 Ladrillero, Maldonado, Fonte, Vizcaino. 



Archer, William S., his speech in the 

 Senate of the United States on the bill 

 for the occupation of Oregon, 385, 386, 

 388. 



Arteaga, Ignacio, voyage, 125. 



Ashley, William H., conducts trading 

 expeditions from St. Louis to the 

 Rocky Mountain regions, 357. 



Astoria established, 296. Described, 299 

 —313. Ceded to North- West Compa- 

 ny, 303. Taken by British, 304. Re- 

 stored to the United States, 309. Burnt, 

 313. See Pacific Fur Company. 



Atlantis, Islaad, placed by Bacon on the 

 north-west coast, 97. 



B. 



Baranof, Alexander, governor or Russian 

 America, his character, 271. Founds 

 Sitka, 270. His mode of conducting 

 negotiations, 302. Seizes part of Cali- 

 fornia, 327. Attempts to seize one of 

 the Sandwich Islands, 328. 



Becerra, Diego, voyage from Mexico by 

 order of Cortes, 54. 



Benton, Thomas H., his speech in the 

 Senate of the United States on the bill 

 for the occupation of Oregon, 384. 



Benyowsky, Augustus, a Polish exile in 

 Kamtchatka, performs the first voyage 

 from that country to Canton, 138. 



Bering, Alexander, first voyage from 

 Kamtchatka to the Arctic Sea, 129. 

 Second voyage, 129. Third and last 

 voyage, 130. Reaches the American 

 continent, 131. Shipwreck and death, 

 133. 



Bering's Strait discovered, 129. Described, 



Berkeley, Captain, rediscovers the Strait 

 of Fuca ; murder of part of his crew off 

 Destruction Island, 171. 



Berrien, John M., his speech in the Senate 

 of the United States on the bill for the 



. occupation of Oregon, 385. 



Billings, Joseph, engaged by the empress 

 of Russia to explore the North Pacific, 

 162. His voyage produces no valuable 

 results, 221. 



Bodega y Quadra, Juan Francisco de, first 

 voyage, under Heceta, from Mexico, 

 along the north-west coast, 117. Impor- 

 tance of his discoveries, 123. Second 

 voyage, under Arteaga, 125. (See Mau- 

 relle.) Commissioner to treat with Van- 

 couver at Nootka, 231. (See Nootka 

 Convention.) Letter to Captains Gray 

 and Ingraham, 242, 443. Death, 255. 



Brobdignag, placed by Swift on the north- 

 west coast, near Columbia River, 97. 



Broughton, William, sent by Vancouver 

 to survey the lower part of the Co- 

 lumbia River, 247. Unfairness to the 

 Americans, 248. Sent to England, 249. 



