GENERAL INDEX. 



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vessels from trading in the North Pa- 

 cific, 332. (See Ukase.) Convention 

 with the United States, 342. Treaty 

 with Great Britain, 343. Convention 

 with the United States virtually abro- 

 gated by that treaty, 343. Refuses to 

 renew the fourth article of the conven- 

 tion with the United States, 362. 



Russian American Company established 

 by charter, 269. Its territories, 36. 

 Its system, 270. Abuses in the admin- 

 istration of its possessions, 271. Many 

 abuses removed, 274. Renewal of its 

 charter ; great improvement. in its sys- 

 tem, 364. Leases a part of its terri- 

 tories to the Hudson's Bav Company, 

 364. 



Russians conquer Northern Asia, 127. 

 Their discoveries in the North Pacific, 

 131, et seq. 



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San Diego, 17. Discovered by Vizcaino, 

 92. The first Spanish colony on the west 

 coast of California planted there, 109. 



San Francisco Bay, 17. The northern- 

 most spot on the west coast of America 

 occupied by the Spaniards previous to 

 May, 1789, 248. 



San Lucas, Cape, the southern extremity 

 of California, 15. 



San Roque, river so called by the Span- 

 iards, the same now called the Colum- 

 bia, discovered, 120, 430. 



Sandwich Islands described, 39. Dis- 

 covered by Cook, 157. Frequented by 

 the Fur Traders, 168. Capture of the 

 schooner Fair American by the na- 

 tives, 225. Pretended cession of Owy- 

 hee to Great Britain by Tamahamaha, 

 251. Tamahamaha sovereign of the 

 whole group, 268. Death of Tama- 

 hamaha, 329. Christianity introduced 

 into the islands, 330. Proceedings of 

 the American missionaries; language 

 of the islands, 330. Expulsion of the 

 Catholic missionaries, and their rein- 

 statement, 371. The British occupy the 

 islands temporarily, 373. Diminution 

 of the native population, 374. See 

 Cook, Tamahamaha, Metcalf, Vancou- 

 ver, Ingraham. 



Santa Barbara Islands, 17. Discovered 

 by Cabrillo, 64. 



Schelikof, Gregory, establishes Russian 

 colonies on the coasts and islands of 

 America, 161. The founder of the 

 Russian American Company, 269. 



Sevier, Ambrose, speech in the Senate of 

 the United States on the bill for the 

 occupation of Oregon, 382. 



Sitka, or New Archangel, capital of Rus- 

 sian America, 37. Founded bv Ba- 

 ranof, 270. 



Snake River. See Lewis River. 



South Pass in the Rocky Mountains, 6. 



Discovered by Ashley, 357. 

 Sutil and Mexicana, voyage of, 239, 241. 



See Galiano and Valdes. 



Tamahamaha, a chief of note in Owyhee, 

 168. King of Owyhee, 249. Pretend- 

 ed cession of the sovereignty of his 

 island to the British, 251. Acquires the 

 dominion over all the islands, 268. His 

 acute ness in trade, 269, 296. His death 

 and character, 329. 



Tchirikof, Alexei, voyages of, 129, 130, 

 133. See Bering. 



Treaty of partition between Spain and 

 Portugal in 1494, 46. Of Saragossa, 

 between the same powers, in 1529, 49. 

 The American treaty between Spain 

 and England, in 1670, 102. Treaty of 

 Utrecht, between Great Britain and 

 France, in 1713, 140. No line of bound- 

 ary between the possessions of those 

 powers settled by that treaty, 140, 281, 

 436. Family Compact, in 1762, be- 

 tween France and Spain, 103. Dis- 

 solved, 207. Treaty of Versailles, be- 

 tween England, France, Spain, and 

 Portugal, in 1763, 102, 278. Nootka 

 treaty, of 1790, between Great Britain 

 and Spain, 209, 258, 318, 476. Treaty 

 of 1800, by which Spain ceded Louis- 

 iana to France, 276, 279. Treaty of 

 1803, by which France ceded Louis- 

 iana to the United States, 276, 279. 

 Treaty of Ghent, in 1814, between the 

 United States and Great Britain, 306. 

 Florida treaty between the United 

 States and Spain, in 1819, 316, 478. 

 Treaty between Great Britain and Rus- 

 sia, in 1825, 342, 479. Treaty between 

 the United States and Great Britain, 

 settling boundaries east of the Lake of 

 the Woods, 377. See Conventions. 



Tyler, John, president of the United 

 States; message respecting the Sand- 

 wich Islands, 372. Message respecting 

 Oregon, 378. 



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Ukase of the Russian government, pro- 

 hibiting vessels of other nations from 

 frequenting the North Pacific coasts, 

 322. Correspondence respecting it, be- 

 tween the secretary of state of the 

 United States and the Russian plenipo- 

 tentiary, at Washington, 333. Protest of 

 the British government against it, 335. 



Ulloa, Francisco, voyage through the 

 Gulf of California and along the west 

 coast, 58. 



