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 INDEX TO VOLUME XX ating treaty

human

of

1818

express amaze-

ment at claim of priority of discovery and occupation by U. S., 325-6; Adams' response to their views re-

Airplane and Stage Coach, 224. Applegate, Jesse, views the race of pioneers as but instrumentalities for Deity in His purpose to increase knowledge, virtue and happiness of

garded as contentious, 326-30.

B

race, 397-9.

ASTORIA FORT, THE BRITISH SIDE OF THE RESTORATION OF, 243-260; 305-330; new documentary sources prepare for a true verdict on the procedures of

BOUNDARY OF OREGON, THE NORTHERN, 25-34; the more or less consistent

the participants in the restoration of Astoria, 243; opportunities given writer by British Foreign Office for on this problem, 243-4; research characteristic aggressiveness common to British and Americans cause of much of the difficulty in their relations, 244-5; parallel plans of North

positions of the United States and Great Britain in their conflicting claims to the Oregon Country, 25; course of events that led to the disclosure of the document containing the request that the Hudson's Bay Company remove its principal trading post to the north side of the Columbia,

West

Company

and

John

Battleship Oregon, The, 224.

Blue Bucket Mine, where was

George Canning's attention directed to the British interests in Oregon, 26; primacy of economic motive in impelling to interest in Oregon, 26; current error as to who initiated movement to select site of Fort Vancouver, 27; Governor J. H. Pelly outlines basis for British claim to Oregon

Jacob

25-6;

245-6; sources of confusion as to relative priorities of explorations of British and Americans as bases of their respective claims, 246-7; the English point of view and William Pitt's plan for colonization of this region based on it, 247-9; the conflicting views of the Americans and their different projects based on them, 250;

Astor,

Country, 27-33. BOUNDARIES, THE NORTHWEST, 331-44; Sir George Simpson answers Henry Addington's queries relating to resources and history of the Pacnic Northwest, 333-95 J- H. Pelly answers queries of William Huskisson relating to resources and history of the Pacific Northwest, 339-44.

through which the movement and procedure for restora-

correspondence tion

the

develops, 250-60; uncertainty of Nor'westers as to the protection

government would afford them in trade ventures in the Oregon Country, 305-7; the course of

that the British

events touching the foreign relations of the U. S. from 1815-17 of which the dispatching of the Ontario was a part, 307-9; the report that the Ontario was proceeding to the Columbia River "to seize and destroy the establishment and trade of the North West Company on that coast" caused Simon McGillivray of that concern to this deinstitute inquiries, 309-11; velops a line of correspondence which the British government provides that shall not contest the point of possession of the Columbia River at the outbreak of the war but does not admit the validity of the title of the U. S. government to the settlement

it? 219-20.

Canning, George, political service of, 26. CHRISTIANITY, BEGINNINGS OF, IN ORE-

its irregular mode of secure restoration is deprecated, 311-20; report on the establishment constituting Fort George, and the proceedings of restoration, 320-5; British commissioners negoti-

in which procedure to atad

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159-72; religious influence of early trappers and traders, 160; Iroquois deserters from the Hunt party

GON,

start

movement culminating

in

dele-

gation going to St. Louis on religious mission, 160-1; Dr. McLoughlin conducts services at Fort Vancouver, 162; planting of Roman Catholic work in Oregon, 162; knowledge of Indian trip to St. Louis rouses Dr. Wilbur Fisk and the Jason Lee party is organized, 163; first sermon preached in the Willamette Valley, 163; the great reinforcement, 1840, 166; first protestant church, 167; American Board commissions Dr. Parker, who selects

Dr. 1

68;

Marcus Whitman as companion, the Whitman, Spalding, Gray