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Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina), 1871-1936

"Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward"


Anderson, Dr., with Cook, 193.
Anian, Straits of, 9, 279 n.
Anton, Juan de, captain of _Glory of the South Seas_, 158 n.
Apraxin, Count, 8 n.
Archangel Michael, modern Sitka once named, 306; founding of, by Baranof,
306, 331-332; massacre at, 307-310, 332.
Arguello, Don Joseph, 241.
Aricara, Drake at, 155.
Astor, John Jacob, 65, 212, 303, 318, 322, 333.
Athabasca Lake, attempt to identify, with Northwest Passage, 174, 175.
Atka, otter grounds at, 69.
Atto, Hawaiian boy, 229, 233, 240.
Attoo, village in, destroyed by Russian fur hunters, 83.
Auteroche, Chappe d', cited, 295.
Avacha Bay, Bering at, 17, 19, 23; survivors of Bering expedition return
to, 59-60; vessels of Cook's expedition at, 208.

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Baker, lieutenant in Vancouver's expedition, 266, 270.
Baker, Mount, 270.
Balboa, 134, 144.
Baltimore, Benyowsky visits, 127.
Bancroft, Hubert Howe, cited, 241, 290, 295.
Baranof, Alexander, governor of Russian American Fur Company, 67, 167 n.,
288, 301, 304, 306, 310; character of, 316-317; personal appearance of,
317; early career of, 317-318; sails to America (1790), 318; wrecked on
Oonalaska, 319-320; builds boat and reaches Kadiak, 321; defeats hostile
Indians at Nuchek Island, 323-324; establishes fort at Sitka, 331; loses
fort by Sitka massacre, but rebuilds and founds New Archangel (modern
Sitka), 332-333; in old age deposed from governorship, 335-336; death of,
337.


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