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Title: Pioneers of the Pacific Coast
A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters

Author: Agnes C. Laut

Release Date: September 1, 2009 [EBook #29886]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: The descent of the Fraser River, 1808. From a colour
drawing by C. W. Jefferys.]

PIONEERS OF THE
PACIFIC COAST

A Chronicle of Sea Rovers
and Fur Hunters

BY

AGNES C. LAUT

TORONTO

GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY

1915

Copyright in all Countries subscribing to
the Berne Convention

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CONTENTS

Page

I. THE VOYAGE OF THE 'GOLDEN HIND' . . . . . . . . 1
II. VITUS BERING ON THE PACIFIC . . . . . . . . . . 11
III. THE OUTLAW HUNTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
IV. COOK AND VANCOUVER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
V. 'ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, FROM CANADA, BY LAND' . . 71
VI. THE DESCENT OF THE FRASER RIVER . . . . . . . . 86
VII. THOMPSON AND THE ASTORIANS . . . . . . . . . . . 99
VIII. THE PASSING OF THE FUR LORDS . . . . . . . . . . 115
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

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ILLUSTRATIONS

THE DESCENT OF THE FRASER RIVER, 1808 _Frontispiece_
From a colour drawing by C. W. Jefferys.

ROUTES OF EXPLORERS ON THE PACIFIC COAST . . . . . _Facing page_ 44
Map by Bartholomew.

JAMES COOK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . " " 46
From the portrait by Dance in the Gallery of
Greenwich Hospital.

THE LAUNCH OF THE 'NORTH-WEST AMERICA' AT NOOTKA
SOUND, 1788 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . " " 58
From Meares's 'Voyages.'

CALLICUM AND MAQUINNA, CHIEFS OF NOOTKA SOUND . . " " 68
From Meares's 'Voyages.'

GEORGE VANCOUVER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . " " 70
From a painting in the National Portrait