Hudson's Bay Company, the, [45], [53]; interested in the Pacific fur trade, [71]; its jurisdiction over Oregon, [116-123]; its short-sighted policy, [124], [126-8]; founds a colony on Vancouver Island, [128-31].

Indians of the Pacific Coast, and Cook, [47-8]; and Gray, [56], [61-2]; and Mackenzie, [83], [84-5]; and Fraser, [88], [96-8]; and the Astorians, [110-12]; and M'Loughlin, [117], [119], [125-6], [127]; and the Oregon brigades, [121], [123]; and Douglas, [128-9]. See Aleuts and Carrier Indians.

Juan de Fuca, strait of, [12]; the search for, [17], [45], [47], [53], [56]; located by Barkley, [57].

Kamchatka, [13]; and the fur trade on the Aleutians, [31-9], [49]. See Petropavlovsk.

Kendrick, Captain John, his trading expedition to the Pacific Coast, [55], [56], [57-60].

Kootenay Indians, the, [102], [103].

La Pérouse, a French explorer on the Pacific Coast, [58].

Lewis, Meriwether, his overland expedition to the Pacific, [86], [87], [90], [108], [125].

Lewis, an Astorian, his plucky end, [111-12].

M'Dougall, Duncan, at Astoria, [108], [112].