Preface Introduction Selected Chronology Chapter 1: Sebastián Vizcaíno, Expedition to California, 1602-1603 1. A Port for the Manila Galleon, 1585 2. Viceroy Conde de Monterrey''s Sailing Orders, 1602 3. At the Port of Acapulco, 1602 4. Scurvy Interrupts the Voyage, 1603 5. Navigating with the Bolaños Derrotero, 1603 6. Rio de MartÍn Aguilar, 1603 7. Port of Monterey, 1603 8.
California as an Island, 1625 9. Coastal Chart of the Vizcaíno Voyage, 1802 Chapter 2: Vitus Bering and Aleksei Chirikov, Second Kamchatka Expedition, 1733-1743 10. Joseph Delisle Map, 1733 11. Orders from the Empress Anna, 1732 12. Imperial Ambitions, 1732, 1734 13. Reports from Kamchatka, 1742 14. Georg Stellar on Bering Island, 1743 15. Tragic Cost of Scurvy, 1741 16.
Social Costs of Natives of Kamchatka, 1743 17. Joseph Delisle''s Map of New Discoveries, 1752 18. Gerhard Müller''s Attack on Delisle, 1754 19. The Russian Map, 1754 Chapter 3: Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra and Bruno de Hezeta, Second Bucareli Expedition, 1775 20. Defense of Empire, 1757 21. Viceroy Antonio Bucareli''s Orders, 1775 (1773) 22. Shipboard Conditions, 1775 23. Hazards of Navigation, 1775 24.
Ceremonies of Possession, 1774 25. Bruno Hezeta''s Map of the Columbia River, 1775 26. Ayala in San Francisco Bay, 1775 27. Human Cost and First Encounters, 1775 28. Bruno Hezeta''s Coastal Map, 1775 29. Rare Publicized Reports, 1776, 1781 Chapter 4: James Cook, First British Foray to the Northwest Coast, 1778 30. Secret Instructions from the Admiralty, 1776 31. On the Oregon Coast, 1778 32.
Ship Repairs at Nootka Sound, 1778 33. Buying Nature at Nootka Sound, 1778 34. Native Art, 1778 35. Looking for the Northwest Passage, 1778 36. At the Bering Strait on the Edge of the Continent, 1778 37. Meeting the Russians, 1778 38. Death of Cook, 1779 39. Cook''s Great Chart, 1784 Chapter 5: Fur Traders, Commerce, and Cartography, 1785-1792 40.
George Dixon''s Discoveries in the Pacific Northwest, 1787 41. John Kendrick''s Land Purchases, 1791 42. John Meares and the Nootka Sound Controversy, 1790 43. John Meares''s Orders to Explore New Markets, 1788 44. A Conniving Letter to Joseph Banks, 1788 45. Alexander Dalrymple''s Fur Trade Plan, 1789 46. Tragic Human Costs of Pursuing Furs, 1787 47. James Hanna''s Conflict with Natives, 1785 48.
John Meares''s Map, 1790 49. Aaron Arrowsmith''s Map of the Northwest Coast, 1790 Chapter 6: Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de La Pérouse, Following Cook, 1785-1788 50. The King''s Instructions, 1785 51. Sighting the Northwest Coast, 1786 52. Map of Port des Français, 1797 53. Lituya Bay Tragedy, 1786 54. The Tlingit Narrative of the Lituya Tragedy, 1886 55. Tlingit Trade Exchange, 1786 56.
La Pérouse''s Map of the Northwest Coast, 1797 57. Macao Trade Protocols, 1787 58. Uncertain Remedies for Scurvy, 1788 Chapter 7: Alejandro Malaspina, Spanish Enlightenment on the Northwest Coast, 1788-1791 59. Malaspina''s Plan for a Circumnavigation, 1788 60. In Search of the Strait of Anian, 1789 61. Malaspina and Bustamante at Acapulco, 1791 62. Strait of Anian Investigations, 1791 63. Port Mulgrave Map, 1802 64.
With the Tlingit at Port Mulgrave, 1791 65. Speculations on the Peopling of America, 1791 66. A Plan of the Friendly Harbor, 1802 67. Malaspina at Nootka Sound, 1791 68. Malaspina and Political Tragedy, 1794-1803 Chapter 8: George Vancouver, the Great Survey of the Northwest Coast, 1791-1795 69. Letter of Instruction to George Vancouver, 1791 70. First Contact with Northwest Natives, 1792 71. Near-Conflict in Puget Sound, 1792 72.
Sounding and Surveying Puget Sound, 1792 73. Negotiating the Nootka Convention, 1792 74. Maquinna''s Feast at Tahsis, 1792 75. Menzies at Friendly Cove, 1792 76. Broughton''s Map of the Columbia River, 1798 77. Vancouver''s Great Map of the Coast, 1798 78. The Public Humiliation of George Vancouver, 1795-1798 Chapter 9: Robert Gray, First American Commercial Northwest Coast Voyages, 1787-1793 79. The Partners'' Instructions for the First Voyage, 1787 80.
Kendrick''s Sailing Instructions, 1788 81. At Murderers Harbor, 1788 82. Gray Takes Command of the Columbia, 1789 83. The Partners'' Instructions for the Second Voyage, 1790 84. At Clayoquot Sound, 1792 85. Conflict at Gray''s Harbor, 1792 86. Gray on the Columbia River, 1792 87. Gray''s Columbia River Sketch, May 1792 Chapter 10: Dionisio Alcalá Galiano, Exploration of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, 1792 88.
In Search of Spanish Dominion in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, 1792 89. Search for the Northwest Passage, 1792 90. Malaspina''s and Revillagigedo''s Orders to Galiano, 1791, 1792 91. Tetacus, Native of Vancouver Island, June 1792 92. Ship Manifests and Technology, 1792 93. The Importance to the Viceroy of Place-Names on Maps, 1793 94. Perils in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, July 1792 95. Exchange of Information between Galiano and Vancouver, June-July 1792 96.
The Placement and Replacement of Place-Names, 1795 97. Coastal Map of Vizcaíno''s Voyage, 1802 Selected Bibliography Index.