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GENERAL, INDEX. 



Ulloa, Antonio, secret information afford- 

 ed by him to the Spanish government, 

 respecting the state of the Spanish 

 provinces in South America, in 1740, 

 105. 



Unalashka Island, 38. Visited by Cook, 

 155, who there first meets with Rus- 

 sians, 156. 



United States, first voyages of their citi- 

 zens to the Pacific and to China, 179. 

 First voyages to the north-west coast 

 of America, 180. Their citizens alone 

 can occupy Oregon, 403. 



Urdaneta, Andres de, discovers the mode 

 of crossing the Pacific from west to 

 east, 67. Supposed to have discovered 

 a northern passage between the Atlan- 

 tic and Pacific, 78. 



Utah Salt Lake, 20. 



Vancouver, George, sails from England 

 on an exploring voyage to the Pacific, 

 and as commissioner on the part of 

 Great Britain to receive the lands and 

 buildings to be restored by Spain, 

 agreeably to the Nootka convention, 

 217. Reaches the north-west coast 

 of America, 232. Declares that no 

 river or harbor of consequence is to be 

 found between the 40th and the 48th 

 degree of latitude, 233. Meets Gray, 

 and receives from him an account of 

 the discovery of a great river, 232, 

 which he disbelieves, 233. Enters the 

 Strait of Fuca; explores Admiralty In- 

 let, and takes possession of the whole 

 surrounding territory, 238. Remarks 

 on this act; meets Galiano and Val- 

 des, and continues the survey of the 

 strait, 239. Passes through the strait, 

 and arrives at Nootka, 240. Claims 

 the discovery of the Washington or 

 North Marquesas Islands for Hergest, 

 though he knew them to have been 

 first seen by the Americans, 242. Ne- 

 gotiations with the Spanish commis- 

 sioner Quadra, 242. Claims the whole 

 territory around Nootka for Great Brit- 

 ain, 243. His unfair synopsis of the 

 letter of Gray and Ingraham, 244, 417. 

 Receives accounts and charts of Gray's 



discoveries from Quadra; sends Broagh- 

 ton to examine Columbia River, 247. 

 At the Sandwich Islands, executes per- 

 sons falsely charged with the murder 

 of his officers, 249. Examines a large 

 portion of the north-west coasts, and 

 returns to the Sandwich Islands, 250. 

 Pretended cession of Owyhee to him 

 for his sovereign, 251. Circumstances 

 connected with that affair, 252. Re- 

 turns to the north-west coast, of which 

 he completes the survey, 254. Names 

 given by him to places, 255. Returns 

 to England ; his death ; great value 

 of his journal; his hatred of Ameri- 

 cans, and constant injustice towards 

 them, 256. 

 Vizcaino, Sebastian, exploring voyage 

 along the north-west coast, 91. De- 

 sires to found colonies on those coasts, 

 94. Death, 95. 



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"Washington's or Queen Charlotte's Is- 

 land, east coast first explored by Gray, 

 199. 



Washington or North Marquesas Islands, 

 discovered by Ingraham,. 226. Discov- 

 ery claimed by Marchand, who, how- 

 ever, admits the priority of Ingraham's 

 claim, 228. Discovery claimed by Van- 

 couver for Hergest, 242. Occupied bv 

 the French, 374. 



Webster, Daniel, secretary of state of the 

 United States, concludes a treaty with 

 Lord Ashburton, settling the boundaries 

 east of the Lake of the Woods, 378. 



Whidbey surveys Bulfinch's Harbor, 246. 



Wiccanish, king of Nittinat, 167. 



Wilkes, Charles, his voyage of explora- 

 tion in the Pacific, 376. 



Willamet, river and valley, 26. First 

 settlements of citizens of the United 

 States there, 361. 



Woodbury, Levi, speech in the Senate 

 of the United States on the bill for the 

 occupation of Oregon, 381. 



Wyeth, Nathaniel, endeavors to establish 

 trading posts on the Columbia, 359. 

 Great value of his accounts of Oregon, 

 360. 



