Note 5 — Chapter I

The word “Oregon” was not an appellation of the Spaniards, but appears to have first been employed in 1778 by the English traveller, Captain Jonathan Carver (concerning whom see J. Long’s Voyages, volume ii of our series, note 5). On the meaning thereof, see Oregon Historical Society Quarterly, June, 1900; also H. H. Bancroft, History of Oregon (San Francisco, 1886), i, pp. 17–25.—Ed.