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Lady Washington, the, Gray sails on, to Pacific coast, [213-219]; Captain Kendrick in command of, [228]; last mention of, [238].
Langsdorff, cited, [295].
La Salle, vii, [60].
Lauridsen, Peter, authority on Bering, [12] n., [61] n.
La Vérendrye, vii, [7], [19], [60], [177].
Ledyard, Dr., [243] n.
Ledyard, John, corporal of marines with Cook, [181-182], [195-196], [200], [203], [205], [247-252]; authority for Cook's voyage, [209] n.; early career of, [242-244]; authorities for life of, [243] n., [262] n.; student at Dartmouth College, [245]; works his way to England, [245-246]; experiences of, in London, [246-247]; on return of Cook expedition sent to fight against United States, [252]; returns to Groton and deserts from British navy, [252-253]; borrows money, goes to Paris, and meets Paul Jones and Thomas Jefferson, [254-255]; in England, [256]; walks fourteen hundred miles from Stockholm around Baltic Sea to St. Petersburg, [257-258]; accompanies Dr. Brown three thousand miles into Siberia, [258-259]; joins Joseph Billings' expedition and reaches Lena River, [260]; arrested as a French spy, carried back to St. Petersburg, and expelled from the country, [260-261]; reaches London and is sent to discover source of Nile, [261-262]; dies at Cairo, [262].
Lewis and Clark expedition, [60-61]; John Ledyard's influence on, [242], [255], [262].
Lincoln, General, of Boston, [229].
Lisiansky, Captain, [295], [311], [313].
Lok, Michael, [275] n.
Lopez, Marcus, [216], [220]; murder of, by Indians, [221].
Lynn Canal, Vancouver's survey of, [288].