GENERAL INDEX. 



487 



Pacific, 172. Taken prisoner by the 

 Spaniards at Nootka, 191. Released, 

 192. 



Drake, Francis, voyage around the world, 

 72. Arrives in the North Pacific, and 

 lands on the American coast, 73. Re- 

 ceives from the natives the crown of 

 the country, which he calls New Albi- 

 on, and returns to England, 74. Re- 

 view of accounts of his voyage in the 

 North Pacific, 75. Part of the coast 

 probably seen by him, 76. 



Duffin, Robert, mate of Meares's vessel, 

 enters the Strait of Fuca, 176. Testi- 

 mony respecting events at Nootka, 244. 



Falkland Islands, dispute between Great 

 Britain and Spain respecting them, 

 111. Lord Palmerston's letter to the 

 minister of Buenos Ayres on the sub- 

 ject of their occupation by Great Brit- 

 ain, 111—313, 374. 



Fidalgo, Salvador, voyage of, 220. 



Fleurieu, Clairet de, his Introduction to 

 the Journal of Marchand's voyage, 223. 

 Admits the discovery of the Washing- 

 ton or North Marquesas Islands by 

 Ingraham, 228. > 



Florida, the name applied originally by 

 the Spaniards to the whole eastern side 

 of America, north of the Mexican 

 Gulf, 55. Expeditions through it un- 

 der Narvaez, 57, and Soto, 65. Ceded 

 to the United States, 316. 



Fonte, Admiral, supposed voyage, in the 

 North Pacificj by a person so named, 

 84. 



Forsyth, John, secretary of state of the 

 United States, instructions respecting 

 the meaning of the convention with 

 Russia, 362. Endeavors to procure in- 

 formation respecting the north-west 

 coast, 376. 



Fox, Charles J., his speech in Parliament 

 on the Nootka convention, 212. 



Fuca, Juan de, voyage in the North 

 Pacific, and supposed discovery of a 

 new passage leading to the Atlantic, 

 87, 407. 



Fuca, Strait of, described, 22. Discovered 

 by Juan de Fuca, 87. Search for it by 

 Heceta, 119. By Cook, 150. Found by 

 Berkeley, 171. Rediscovery claimed by 

 Meares, 175. Entered by Gray, 199, 

 234. Kendrick passes through it, 200, 

 217. Surveyed by Vancouver, and Ga- 

 liano, and Valdes, 238. 



Furs and fur trade, general account, 411. 

 See Russian American Company, Hud- 

 son's Bay Company, and North- West 

 Company. 



G. 



Gallatin, Albert, minister plenipotentiary 

 of the United States at London ; ne- 

 gotiations at London, 314, 344. Coun- 

 ter statement respecting the claims of 

 the United States, presented by him to 

 British commissioners, 347, 455. 



Gali, Francisco, his voyage, 68. 



Galiano and Valdes, their voyage through 

 the Strait of Fuca, 240. Journal pub- 

 lished by the Spanish government; 

 Introduction to that Journal reviewed, 

 241. 



Gray, Robert, first voyage to the North 

 Pacific, in command of the trading sloop 

 Washington, from Boston, 180. Sees 

 an opening supposed to be the mouth of 

 the Columbia River, 181. First exam- 

 ines the east coast of Washington's or 

 Queen Charlotte's Island, 199. Enters 

 the Strait of Fuca, 200. Returns to 

 Boston in the ship Columbia, 200. 

 Second voyage to the North Pacific, in 

 the Columbia, 226, 229. Meets Van- 

 couver near the entrance of the Strait of 

 Fuca, and makes known his discovery 

 of the mouth of a great river, 233. Dis- 

 covers Bulfinch's Harbor, 235. Enters 

 the great river, which he names the 

 Columbia, 236. Makes known his dis- 

 covery to the Spanish commandant at 

 Nootka, 237. Letter of Gray and In- 

 graham to the Spanish commandant, 

 respecting the occurrences at Nootka 

 in 1789, 242, 41 3. Returns to the Unit- 

 ed States, 237. 



H. 



Harmon, D. W., important evidence 

 afforded by him respecting the first 

 trading posts established by the British 

 west of the Rocky Mountains, 291. 



Hawaii. See Owyhee. 



Hearne, Samuel, discoveries in the territo- 

 ry west of Hudson's Bay, 145. Reaches 

 the Arctic Sea, at the mouth of Cop- 

 permine River, 146. 



Heceta, Bruno, voyage along the north- 

 west coast of America, in 1775, 117. 

 Discovers a river, called by him Rio de 

 San Roque, now called the Columbia, 

 120. 



Henderson, John, speech in the Senate of 

 the United States on the bill for the 

 occupation of Oregon, 382. 



Howel's account ©f the negotiation at 

 Nootka between Vancouver and Qua- 

 dra, 245. 



Hudson, Henry, discovers Hudson's Bay, 

 97. 



Hudson's Bay Company established by 

 charter, 97. Efforts to discover a 



