The adventures of the explorers who came from the west, going eastward, in the exploration of the Pacific Northwest from the coast of California northward: Vitus Bering, the Dane; the outlaw hunters of Russia; Mauritius Benyowsky, the Polish pirate; Cook and Vancouver, the English Navigators; Gray of Boston, the Discoverer of the Columbia; Francis Drake, John Ledyard, George Vancouver, Robert Gray, Alexander Baranof, and other soldiers of fortune on the West Coast of America.
