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north- west passage, 141. Disputes with 

 the North- West Company, 260, 324. 

 Union of these two companies, 326. 

 Receives a grant of exclusive trade in 

 the Indian territories, 326. General 

 view of its system and establishments, 

 397. Papers relating to it, 465. 



Hudson's Strait, probably the same called 

 by the Portuguese the Strait ofJlnian,47. 



Hunt, Wilson P., chief agent of the Pa- 

 cific Fur Company, 295. His negotia- 

 tions with Governor Baranof at Sitka, 

 302. 



Huntingdon, Jabez W., speech in the 

 Senate of the United States on the bill 

 for the occupation of Oregon, 382. 



Ingraham, Joseph, mate of the ship Co- 

 lumbia, in her first voyage from Boston 

 to the north-west coast, 180. Returns 

 to the Pacific as master of the brig 

 Hope, and discovers the Washing- 

 ton or North Marquesas Islands, 226. 

 At the Sandwich Islands, 227. _At 

 Queen Charlotte's Island, 227. At Ma- 

 cao, where he meets Marchand, and 

 communicates his discovery of the 

 Washington Islands, the priority of 

 which is admitted by Marchand and 

 Fleurieu, 228. At Nootka, where he 

 writes a letter, signed by himself and 

 Gray, respecting the proceedings at 

 that place in 1789, 242. Copy of that 

 letter, 414. Unfair synopsis of it by 

 Vancouver, 244. His journal, 231. His 

 death, 237. 



Jesuits undertake the' reduction of Cali- 

 fornia, 99. Their system and establish- 

 ments, 100. Their History of Califor- 

 nia, 101. Expelled from the Spanish 

 dominions, 106. Results of their labors 

 in California, 107. 



Jesup, Thomas S., quartermaster-general 

 of the United States ; report on the 

 best means of occupying Oregon, 336. 

 Effect of that report on the negotia- 

 tions in Europe, 337. 



Jewitt, J. R., his captivity among the In- 

 dians at Nootka, 268. 



K. 



Kamtchatka described, 39. Conquered 

 by the Cossacks, 128. Its position on 

 the Pacific ascertained, 129. 



Kendrick, John, commands the first trad- 

 ing expedition from the United States 

 to the North Pacific, 179. Arrives at 



Nootka, 181. Sails in the sloop Wash 

 ington through the Strait of Fuca, 

 200, 217. The first who engaged in 

 the transportation of sandal-wood from 

 the Sandwich Islands to Canton, 228. 

 His purchases of lands from the Indians 

 at Nootka ; accidentally killed, 229. 



Kodiak Island, 37. Settlement on it by 

 the Russians, 161. 



Krenitzin and Levaschef, voyage of, 137. 



Krusenstern, A. J. von, commands a 

 Russian exploring expedition to the 

 Pacific, 272. His great merit as a navi- 

 gator ; his journal of the expedition ; 

 efficient in the reform of abuses in 

 Russian America, 274 



Ladrillero, Juan, an old Spanish pilot, 

 who pretended to have made a northern 

 voyage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, 

 79. 



Ledyard, John, corporal of marines in 

 Cook's expedition, 149. Escapes from 

 a British ship, off the coast of Connecti- 

 cut, 162. Endeavors to obtain means 

 to engage in the fur trade ; attempts 

 to go by land from Paris to Kamt- 

 chatka ; arrested at Irkutsk, and 

 forced to return ; attempts to discover 

 the source of the Nile, and dies at 

 Cairo, 163. 



Lewis, Meriwether, and John Clarke, 

 commissioned by President Jefferson to 

 explore the Missouri and Columbia 

 countries, 284. Voyage up the Mis- 

 souri to its sources ; passage through 

 the Rocky Mountains, 285. Descend 

 the Columbia to the Pacific; winter 

 at trie mouth of the Columbia, 286. 

 Return to the United States, 287. Gen- 

 eral results of their expedition ; their 

 Journal written by Lewis ; melancholy 

 death of Lewis, 288. 



Lewis, or Snake, or Sahaptin River, 

 principal southern branch of the Co- 

 lumbia, discovered by Lewisand Clarke, 

 287. Described, 24. 



Linn, Lewis F., his bill and speeches in 

 the Senate of the United States on the 

 occupation of Oregon, 379, 387. 



Louisiana, settled by the French ; grant- 

 ed by Louis XIV. to Crozat, 227 ; and 

 afterwards to Law, 228. Ceded by 

 France to Spain ; retroceded by Spain 

 to France, and sold by France to the 

 United States, 279. Its extent at dif 

 ferent times, 280. Comprehended no 

 territory west of the Rocky Mountains, 

 283. Northern boundary not deter- 

 mined by commissaries agreeably to the 

 treaty of Utrecht, as generally sup- 

 posed, 281, 436. 



