Identifier: bwhisofnwcoast27bancroft (find matches)
Title: Bancroft's Works History of the Northwest Coast vol 1
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Bancroft, Hubert Howe
Subjects: history
Publisher: San Francisco, A. L. Bancroft and Company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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d by his in-structions, to a joint survey and mutual inspectionof charts. The operations in company were in the region ofDesolation Sound, and the results are shown on theappended section of Vancouvers map, which with its 79 The Spanish names retained by Vancouver in this section were Canaldel Rosario, wrongly applied to make room for the name gulf of Georgia,and Tejada Island, misprinted Fevada and Favida; but he also condescendedto leave a few other points, previously named by the Spaniards, without anynames at all. His changes were as follows: Garzon to Birch Bay, PointCepeda to Point Roberts, Point Langara to Point Gray, Florida Blanea toB trrard Inlet, Carmelo to Howe Sound (naming also Points Atkinson andGore or Gower, and islands of Passage and Anvil in connection with thesound), Mazarredo to Jervis Canal, with Scotch Fir Point and Concha toHarwood Island. Points Upwood and Marshall were added to TejadaIsland, and Savary Island was named. Sturgeon Bank is also named inthe text.
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VANCOUVERS MOVEMENTS. 279 names may be compared with Galianos chart of thesame region.80 Leaving the Spaniards behind, Vancouver proceededup the long channel,which he named Johnstone Strait;thence he sent letters to Nootka overland by Indianswho knew Maquinna, and early in August emergedinto the Pacific, not by the narrow channel followeda little later by Galiano, but by the wider passagenamed in earlier years Queen Charlotte Sound, wherenow the Chatham grounded and narrowly escapedwreck. From the 9th to the 19th of August thevessels followed the coast up to Fitzhugh Sound, andthe boats were sent up to 52° 18, with results shownon the accompanying section of the chart. Then,partly by reason of news received from Captain Shep-herd of the Venus in this region, the commanderturned his course southward, and on the 28th ofAugust anchored at Nootka. Here he found theDcedalus store-ship of his expedition, which had ar-rived from England by way of the Sandwich Islands,where the commander Her

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