[22] Id., 114.
[23] The purchase is confirmed in the information of William Graham, London, May 5, 1790 (inclosure No. VI, with Meares’s Memorial, appendix to Voyages). It was also confirmed by Duffin in conversation with Vancouver in 1792. (Vancouver, Voyages, II, 370-372). Both of these have strong English prejudices. The purchase is denied by Gray and Ingraham. (Greenhow, Oregon and California, 414.) They strongly favored the Spanish. They say that the Indians denied having sold land to the English. That there was a purchase was practically conceded, however, even by the Spaniards, since Quadra offered to Vancouver in 1792 the land on which Meares’s house had stood in 1788. (See Vancouver, Voyages, II, 335 ff.)
[24] Id., 115-116.
[25] Id., 130.
[26] Greenhow, Oregon and California, 175.
[27] Meares, Voyages. 131.
[28] Id., 146, and Memorial in appendix.
[29] Id., 95.
[30] Id., 204.
[31] Meares, Voyages, 173, and Memorial in appendix.