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Saanach coast, sea-otter on, [69].
St. Lawrence Island, [11], [12].
St. Paul, Bering's vessel, [17]; Chirikoff in command of, [20], [22], [24] ff., [60]; voyage of, [45-53].
St. Peter, Bering's vessel, [17], [20], [23] ff.; wreck of, [44-45].
St. Peter, the second, [58-59].
St. Peter and Paul, the, [113], [117]; Benyowsky's cruise in, [122-126].
Sands, Mr., of New York, [254].
Sandwich Islands, Cook's visit to and death at, [196-205]; Gray stops at, [228-229]; conduct of fur traders who visited, [283-284]; Vancouver's actions at, [284-285].
San Francisco, Vancouver at, [281-282].
Sauer, cited, [27], [260], [295].
Savelief, Sidor, [48].
Sea-otter, [42], [53], [56]; habitat of, on Aleutian Islands, [63], [66-67], [82-83]; Bering's men reap a fortune from, [63-64], [79]; influence of, on exploration of North Pacific, [65]; description of, [65-66]; methods of hunting the, [67-78]; prices commanded for fur of, [76]; figures of numbers killed, [79]; the early hunters of, [80-105]; Cook's trade in, [187]; Gray's bargain, [228].
Selkirk, Lord, [303].
Seymour, Henry, [243].
Shelikoff, Gregory Ivanovich, [303-306], [315].
Shelikoff, Natalie, [304].
Shevyrin, with Drusenin, [92-97].
Shields, English shipbuilder with Baranof, [325-326], [328].
Shumagin Islands, [30], [192].
Silva, Nuno, Drake's pilot, [159], [167] n.
Silver Map of the World, [168].
Simpson, Voyage Round World by, [295] n.
Sitka, Indians massacre Russians at, [50] n., [307-310], [332]; as capital of Russian America, called Archangel Michael, [306]; Russian American Fur Company founds New Archangel on site of, [314], [333]; Baranof's career at, [330-336].
Sitka Sound, Chirikoff in, [46-52]; sea-otter in, [66], [79]; Vancouver ends his explorations at, [289].
Society Islands, Cook's first visit to, [180-181]; second visit, [182].
Solovieff, Cossack hunter, [105].
South Seas, Cook's voyage to, [180-181].
Spanberg, Martin, [11], [13], [14], [16], [18], [21].
Sparks, Jared, Life of Ledyard by, [243] n., [262] n.
Staduchin, explorer, [296].
Stejneger, Dr. Leo, x, [41] n., [72] n., [295] n.
Steller, George William, [14] n., [20], [23], [25], [26-27], [30], [33], [38-40], [41], [42], [53-55], [60].
Steller's Arch, [39].
Stephanow, Hippolite, [108], [110], [125], [127].
Straits of Fuca, Cook's conclusion as to non-existence of, [185], [222], [264]; Gray sails near, [223]; Gray explores, [227], [235], [269]; Vancouver's arrival at and exploration of, [268-270], [273-275].
Straits of Magellan, [135]; Drake's passage of, [150].
Sulphur at Oonalaska, [92], [103].
Sunday Harbor, [325].