Vikings of the Pacific - The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Vikings of the Pacific, by Agnes C. Laut This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward Author: Agnes C. Laut Release Date: November 11, 2006 [eBook #19765] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VIKINGS OF THE PACIFIC*** E-text prepared by Al Haines Transcriber's note: Page numbers in this book are indicated by numbers enclosed in curly braces, e.g. {vi} or {99}. They have been located where page breaks occurred in the original book, in accordance with Project Gutenberg's FAQ-V-99. For its Index, page numbers have been placed only at the start of that section. [Frontispiece: Seal Rookery, Commander Islands.] Vikings of the Pacific THE ADVENTURES OF THE EXPLORERS WHO CAME FROM THE WEST, EASTWARD BERING, THE DANE; THE OUTLAW HUNTERS OF RUSSIA; BENYOWSKY, THE POLISH PIRATE; COOK AND VANCOUVER, THE ENGLISH NAVIGATORS; GRAY OF BOSTON, THE DISCOVERER OF THE COLUMBIA; DRAKE, LEDYARD, AND OTHER SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE ON THE WEST COAST OF AMERICA BY A. C. LAUT AUTHOR OF "PATHFINDERS OF THE WEST," ETC. New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.