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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1887)
, THE WEST SHORE. IU. Straits of Fuca, and Gulf of Geor- inland which they observed, but did not gia, in 17V.', thus circumnavigating Van- have time to explore, led them to report cKivor island. Kendrick was an Amer- to the Mexican Viceroy, that, in their i., and bad entered the Pacific with opinion, the inter-oceanic passage, "go Cuiii TvU-il Gry, who, m 1702, die- zealously sought for by foreigners, if covered and enUred the mouth of the there is one, can not be elsewhere than Columbia river. The rnia of this claim in this great channel" This report stun in the record made by Captain Mearen, ulated the viceroy to dispatch another nf information derived from Kendrick; expedition the following year. Accor hut m Kendrick, in his own journal, dingly, in the summer of 1792, Lieuten never recorded any auch voyage, it may ants Dionisio Galiano and Cayetano Val w II le doubted if it hail any existence dez sailed into the Straits of Fuca in in fart. the schooners Sutil and Mexicana, and The fint actual exploration of these began the work of exploration. Early water waa made in the summer of 1790, in the season, on the twenty-third of by Lieutenant Alferez Manuel Quimper, March, Lieutenant Salvador Fidalgo en of the .Spanish navy, in the Princcsa tered Neah bay, or Porto Nunez Gaona, Ifail He entered the Straits of Fuca, and, erecting buildings and fortifications, and carefully examined both shores for took possession in the name of Spain, a liUnce of one hundred miles. To In 1791, for the purpose of settling a guimper, also, belongs the honor of dis- difficulty which had occurred at Nootka covering Puget sound During his ex- sound, on the west coast of Vancouver p oranons of the straits, he penetrated a island, as well as to make a long voyage bort daUnce into the sound proper, of exploration, England dispatched to but, .uppomng ,t to be only an inlet, he the Pacific, Captain George Vancouver, return, bestowing on it the name En- in the sloop of war Discovery. He was Z ?.! . "e gaV6 DRme8 "Panied by the armed tender ChaU 2Zu Z ?7 ? thft!.reion' der the command of Lieutenant nt o o t th hRVe u dl8Carded W. R Broughton. They rounded Cape ZS Ter' F1yonthethirteenthof April, m Z 11 I hri t Y , m-8hl and Pr0ceed6d Blowly up the Straits of tWiulfofGeorda- C M f namiDg Pla(m vessel8 an" i&ki chored at Port Discovery (named Porto J Htm In 1?1 ZIT V ?dega y QQadra fcy QPer), and J J Mar Wz, Pasarendezvous, Captain ur, thorough exploration TU and leadkS m to UinM tUt CMmn(io 17 as. the southward, for about four weeks. "UMatnoreeiU.nMve bo.1 V Abe chart tW made was qrite accurate, W than had Ua sunp, h a" and ha8 Berved M ba8 of all subse diJ 'M'We it TbVy J If th qwnt elaborations. The long, eastern 'M'We the (alf of (; ' H.Wver' the tound was christened Admir. of water ,i uCn v!n Dg f western one, Hood's j;r ulaod an,t the ttlia Und 0f YT honor of Hood. The Wimlu, and which the g J 7 DamJ PQgek und, b honor of Lieuten- CWld,l !ria The ttt Paet- Wlied only to the up Usages per, or southern, portion, but has now