North-West Coast

D Spanish influence delays colonization, 4; history of, affected by Ru ian 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 Pérouse explores in 1788, 25; Étienne March and explores in 1791, 25; Malas pin a's voyage to, in 1791, 25; Elisa's and Quimper's visit to, 26. Bib. : Bancroft, History of the North-West Coast .