GENERAL INDEX. 



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MacDougal, Duncan, partner in the Pa- 

 cific Company, 294. Sells the estab- 

 lishments to the North- West Company, 

 303. See Astoria. 



MacDufEe, George, speech in the Senate 

 of the United States on the bill for the 

 occupation of Oregon, 382. 



MacKenzie, Alexander, explores the north- 

 western parts of America; reaches the 

 Arctic Sea, 263. Reaches the Pacific, 

 264. MacKenzie River discovered by 

 MacKenzie, 263. 



MacRoberts, Samuel, speech in the Senate 

 of the United States on the bill for the 

 occupation of Oregon, 382. 



Magellan, Fernando, sails from the Atlan- 

 tic through Magellan's Strait into the 

 Pacific, and across the latter ocean to 

 India, 48. 



Malaspina, Alexandro, explores the coasts 

 near Mount St. Elias, in search of a 

 passage supposed to communicate with 

 the Atlantic; arrested and imprisoned 

 on his return to Spain; his name not 

 mentioned in the account of his voyage 

 officially published at Madrid, 222. 



Maldonado, Lorenzo Ferrer de, account 

 of his pretended voyage from the At- 

 lantic to the Pacific, 79. 



Maquinna, chief of Nootka, 167. Grants 

 land to Meares for his temporary use, 

 174. Denies that the British had bought 

 lands or erected buildings at Nootka, 

 242. Takes the ship Boston, of Boston, 

 and murders nearly all her crew, 268. 



Marchand, Etienne, commands the ship 

 Solide, from Marseilles, in her voyage 

 around the world, 223. Sees the islands 

 which had been previously discovered 

 by Ingraham, of which he sent an ac- 

 count to France, claiming the discovery. 

 Ingraham's claim admitted by Fleu- 

 rieu, the editor of Marchand's Journal; 

 Journal of Marchand's voyage, edited 

 by Fleurieu ; general character of the 

 work, 223. See Fleurieu. 



Marcos de Niza, a Franciscan friar, pre- 

 tends to have discovered a rich and 

 populous country, called Cibola, north- 

 west of Mexico, 59. 



Marquesas Islands, discovered by Menda- 

 na, 95. North Marquesas or Washing- 

 ton Islands, discovered by Ingraham, 

 226. These islands occupied by the 

 French, 374. 



Martinez, Estevan, pilot to Perez, in the 

 Santiago ; pretends to have rediscovered 

 the Strait of Fuca, 116. Commands 

 in a voyage of observation to the coasts 

 occupied by the Russians, 185. Or- 

 dered by the viceroy of Mexico to oc- 

 cupy Nootka Sound, 187. Arrives at 

 Nootka, 191. Seizes the Iphigenia, 



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but afterwards releases her, 192. Seizes 

 the North- West America, 194. Seizes 

 the Argonaut, and imprisons her cap- 

 tain, 195. Seizes the Princess Royal, 

 198. Reflections on these acts, 197. 

 Returns to Mexico, 198. 



Maurelle, Antonio, pilot, under Bodega, 

 in his voyages along the north-west 

 coasts, 117 — 125. His Journal of the 

 first of these voyages, translated and 

 printed at London, 117. Importance 

 of this work, 123. His Journal of the 

 other voyage, 125. 



Meares, John, his first voyage to the 

 north-west coast, 166. His second voy- 

 age, under the Portuguese flag, with 

 the Felice and Iphigenia, 172. In- 

 structed to take any vessels which 

 may attempt to molest him, but not in- 

 structed to form any establishment or 

 purchase lands, 173. Reasons for his 

 sailing under the Portuguese flag, 174. 

 Arrives in the Felice at Nootka, where 

 he obtains from Maquinna the use of a 

 piece of ground, afterwards claimed by 

 him as purchased, 174. Receives from 

 Berkeley an account of the rediscover)' 

 of the Strait of Fuca, by the latter, 171. 

 Yet claims the merit of the rediscovery 

 himself, 175. Seeks in vain for the 

 great River San Roque, (the Columbia,) 

 as laid down on Spanish charts, 176. 

 Declares that no such river exists, 177. 

 Yet the British government claims the 

 discovery of the Columbia for him, 178, 

 440. His account of the arrival of the 

 sloop Washington at Nootka, 181. Re- 

 turns to China, 180. Sent to London, 

 to complain of the seizure of the vessels 

 at Nootka, by the Spaniards, 202. His 

 memorial to the British government, 

 203. Its numerous falsehoods and in- 

 consistencies, 172, 175, 178, 193, 211. 



Mendocino, Cape, 19. Discovered, 65. 



Mendoza, Antonio de, sent as viceroy to 

 supersede Cortes in the government of 

 Mexico, 56. Attempts to discover new 

 countries in America, 57. 



Mendoza, Diego Hurtado, commands the 

 ships sent by Cortes to explore the Pa- 

 cific coasts of America, 53. 



Metcalf, voyage of, fires on the natives 

 at Mowee, 224. Young Metcalf and 

 his crew murdered by the natives of 

 Owyhee, 225. 



Moncachtabe, an Indian, his account of a 

 great river , flowing from the central parts 

 of North America to the Pacific, 145. 



Monroe, James, secretary of state of the 

 United States, declares to the British 

 minister the intention of his govern- 

 ment to secure the possession of the 

 mouth of the Columbia, agreeably to 

 the treaty of Ghent, 307. President 

 of the United States; his message, de- 



