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Valdes, Don, [272-273].

Valparaiso, Drake's raid on, [153-154].

Vancouver, George, vii, [105], [161]; midshipman with Cook, [181], [198]; authority on Cook's voyage, [209] n.; meeting with Gray, [235], [268-270]; Gray contrasted with, [239-240]; as captain in British navy, sent to explore Pacific coast of America, [265]; ideas on Northeast Passage question, [265-266]; sights Drake's "New Albion," [267]; misses Columbia River, [267-268], [235]; explores Puget Sound, [270-272]; misses Fraser River, [272]; explores Straits of Fuca, [272-275]; arrives at Nootka, [276]; confers with Spanish representative, [277-279]; sails to Columbia River, [279-280]; visits California, [281-282]; winters at Sandwich Islands (1792-1793), [283-285]; acts of injustice and justice at, [284-285]; returns to American coast and surveys Portland Canal, [286-287]; in 1794 surveys Cook's Inlet, [287-289]; work of, results in explosion of theory of Northeast Passage, [289-290]; authorities for, [290] n.

Vancouver Island, [228], [278].

Vega, the, [209] n., [295] n.

Veniaminof, Letters on Aleutians by, [295] n.

Venta Cruz, Drake at, [141-145].

Vera Cruz, Hawkins and Drake vs. the Spanish at, [135-138].

Vérendrye.

Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, Cook's, [209] n.