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Title: Bancroft's Works History of the Northwest Coast vol 1
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Bancroft, Hubert Howe
Subjects: history
Publisher: San Francisco, A. L. Bancroft and Company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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omitted on Galianos map, but the additionsare few. Punta deSanta Saturnina becomes Island de Saturna (as it has re-mained, probably a typographical error, on the later map). The islands ofCepeda and Langara become points on a peninsula, north of which is foundthe entrance to the Canal de Florida Blanca, while the place of the southernentrance is taken by Ensenada del Engauo. Seno de Gaston is a new name forthe bay above Point Socorro ; and Punta de Loera becomes Ensenada de Loera.The Punta and Laguna del Garzon become an ensenada of the same name.The bocas of the Florida Blanca, Carmelo, and Monifio, being explored totheir heads, become brazos; and the name of the last is changed to Mazar-redo. Poliel (an error) is changed to Purlier, and Cala de Descanso is addedto the boca de Wentuhuysen. 71 The map is No. 2 of the original atlas, and is also found on a larger scalein Reply of the United States. To the land north of the Sallda are given, on 272 EXPLORING AND COMMERCIAL EXPEDITIONS.
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Galianos Map, 1792. SPANISH AND ENGLISH ACCOUNTS. 273 off the mouth of the river afterward called Eraser,noting the signs of its existence, though assured laterby Vancouver that no such river existed.75 Thus Galiano and Valdes had sailed through FucaStrait and come out into the Pacific, proving the ex-istence of another great island, and, what was muchmore important to them and their nation, that noneof the straits many channels afforded the desired ordreaded passage to the Atlantic. This was the lastSpanish exploring expedition on these coasts, and theonly one whose results were published by order of thegovernment. The journal and maps appeared in 1802,with a most valuable introductory resume of precedingvoyages by Martin Fernandez de Navarrete; but ex-cepting the introduction, this work attracted verylittle attention, being obscured by the previous ap-pearance of Vancouvers great work. So far as theexploration of 1792 is concerned, howTever, the differ-ence between the Spanish and E

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