The Winning of the Far West; a History of the Regaining of Texas, of the Mexican War, And the Oregon Question; And of the Successive Additions to the Territory of the United States, Within the Continent of America: 1829-1867
The Winning of the Far West; a History of the Regaining of Texas, of the Mexican War, And the Oregon Question; And of the Successive Additions to the Territory of the United States, Within the Continent of America: 1829-1867
Robert Mcnutt Mcelroy
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Upon reaching New Albion, Cook anchored in a spacious bay, in latitude 49® 33' N.,' where he foimd signs which at first convinced him that this region had been before visited by Etiropeans. "Some accotmts of a Spanish voyage to this coast in 1774 or 1775," he wrote,^ "had reached England before I sailed; but . . . dromistances stifl&ciently prove that these ships had not been at Nootka." Careful study fully confirmed him in this opinion; and he took possession of the territory for England, hav-... ing "honored" the inlet "with the name of King George's Sound."* He later discovered, however, that it was "called Nootka by the natives"; and it was the latter name that persisted, as did also the belief that Captain Cook was its first dis- coverer. Years passed before it became quite dear that the "accounts of a Spanish voyage to this coast in 1774," mentioned in Cook's Journal^ were true, and that Perez had claimed it for his most ' This was not a new act, but an amended edition of an act of 1745.
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