Note 36 — Chapter VI

Cape Disappointment was so named by Captain John Meares, who explored this coast in 1788. Having the charts of the Spaniard Heceta, who in 1775 had named this point Cape St. Roque, and mentioned the evidences of a great river, Meares was disappointed in not finding a safe harbor; he entirely overlooked the river’s mouth, naming the inlet Deception Bay. Many of Meares’s names have persisted on the map of the Northwest Coast.—Ed.