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claring the American continents not 

 subject to colonization by European 

 nations, 335. 



Monterey discovered by Cabrillo, and so 

 named by Vizcaino, 92. Colony es- 

 tablished there by the Spaniards, 109. 

 Taken by a Buenos Ayrean privateer, 

 365. Taken by an American squad- 

 ron, under Captain Jones, 367. 



Morehead, James T., speech in the Sen- 

 ate of the United States on the bill 

 for the occupation of Oregon, 381. 



N. 



Navarrete, Martin F. de, chief of the Hy- 

 drographical Department at Madrid ; his 

 labors with regard to the history of ear- 

 ly voyages of discovery in America, 84. 



Nootka Sound discovered by the Span- 

 iards under Perez, and called Port San 

 Lorenzo, 113. Cook enters it with 

 his ships, and calls it King George's 

 Sound, 153. The principal rendezvous 

 of the fur trader for some time, 167. 

 Proceedings of Meares at Nootka, 174. 

 The Spaniards determine to occupy it, 

 187. Proceedings of the Spaniards 

 under Martinez, 191. Claims of the 

 British to the possession of the country 

 examined, 242, 256. The Spaniards 

 abandon it, 257. Capture of the ship 

 Boston by the natives, and murder of 

 her crew, 268. 



Nootka treaty, or convention of 1790, 

 between Great Britain and Spain, 477. 

 Discussions which led to it, 202 — 209. 

 (See Meares.) Review of its stipula- 

 tions, 213, 258. Expired in 1796, 258, 

 318. Not to be regarded as a definitive 

 settlement of principles, 340. Its con- 

 tinual subsistence asserted by Great 

 Britain, 349. 



North- West Fur Trading Company of 

 Montreal founded ; its system, 261. 

 First posts established by it west of the 

 Rocky Mountains, 291. Purchases the 

 establishments of the Pacific Company, 

 304. Disputes with the Hudson's Bay 

 Company, 323. Union of the two com- 

 panies, 325. 



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Oregon, river, so called by Carver, sup- 

 posed to flow from the central parts of 

 North America to the Pacific, 142. (See 

 Carver.) Name applied to the country 

 drained by the Columbia, 359. De- 

 scription of Oregon, 21. 



Ossinobia, name given by Lord Selkirk 

 to the country purchased by him on 

 the Red River, 324. 



Owyhee, or Hawaii, the largest of the 

 Sandwich Islands, discovered by Cook, 

 157. 



Perez, Juan, voyage from Mexico along 

 the north-west coast to the 54th degree 

 of latitude, 114. Discovers Nootka 

 Sound, called by him Port San Loren- 

 zo, 116, 153. 



Perouse, Francois G. de la, voyage along 

 a part of the north-west coast, 163. 



Phelps, Samuel S., his speech in the 

 Senate of the United States on the bill 

 for the occupation of Oregon, 381. 



Philippine Islands conquered by the 

 Spaniards, 67. 



Poletica, Chevalier de, Russian minister 

 in the United States; correspondence 

 with the American government respect- 

 ing the ukase of 1821, 332. 



Promuschleniks, general name for the 

 Russians employed in the service of the 

 Russian American Trading Company, 



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Quadra and Vancouver's Island, 29, 240. 



Quadra. See Bodega. 



Queen Charlotte's or Washington's Is- 

 land, discovered by Perez, 115. Not 

 seen by Cook, 153, 170. Seen by La 

 Perouse, 164 ; and by Dixon, who gave 

 it its present name, 164. Its west coast 

 first explored by Gray, who names it 

 Washington's Island, 199. Described, 

 29. 



Queen Charlotte's Sound, name first given 

 to the northern entrance of the Strait 

 of Fuca, 240. 



R. 



Rives, William C, his speech in the Sen- 

 ate of the United States on the bill for 

 the occupation of Oregon, 384. 



Rocky Mountains described, 5. First 

 called the Shining Mountains, or Moun- 

 tains of Bright Stones, 143, 262. 



Rush, Richard, minister plenipotentiary 

 of the United States at London ; discus- 

 sion with Lord Castlereagh respecting 

 the restoration of Astoria, 308. His 

 first negotiation respecting the claims 

 of the United States, 314. Concludes 

 a convention on the subject in 1818, 

 315. His second negotiation on the 

 subject, 336. Talent and industry dis- 

 played by him, 340. 



Russia, government proposes an arrange- 

 ment with the United States respecting 

 the trade of American vessels in the 

 North Pacific, 275. Forbids foreign 



