Note 18 — Chapter II · THE ENGLISH PLANS FOR OCCUPYING NOOTKA SOUND.
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Bancroft, Northwest Coast, 1, 193. This author devotes some 10 pages to a discussion of this expedition.
Greenhow, Oregon and California, 172-178, attempts to prove that the expedition was purely Portuguese. His account is too prejudiced to be of much value. The chief purpose of his book was to prove that America had a better claim to the Oregon country than England. If this expedition had been purely Portuguese, England could have acquired no possible claim through it.