North-west Coast
(Sir James Douglas era) Spanish influence delays colonization, 4;
history of, affected by Russian occupation of Alaska, 4; by British
trade interests by sea, 4; by North West Company, 4; by Hudson's Bay
Company, 4; by Astorians, 4; unvisited by European navigators during
whole of seventeenth and three-quarters of eighteenth century, 11, 12;
final era of exploration of, 18; American voyages to, 23, 24, 25; La
Perouse explores in 1788, 25; Etienne Marchand explores in 1791, 25;
Malaspina's voyage to, in 1791, 25; Elisa's and Quimper's visit to, 26.