cific and that the supremacy of the fur traders
was about to pass away. The British government bought back Vancouver
Island, and proclaimed the new colony of British Columbia on the
mainland. Douglas retired from the company's service and was appointed
governor of both colonies. In 1866 they were united under one
government.

The stampede of treasure-seekers up the Fraser is another story. When
the new colony on the mainland came into being, and the Hudson's Bay
Company fell from the rank of a feudal overlord to that of a private
trader, the pioneer days of the Pacific became a thing of the past.

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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

The bibliography of the Pacific is enormous. There is, indeed, a
record of discovery and exploration on the Pacific coast almost as
large as that of New France or New England. Only a few of the
principal books can be mentioned here; but in most of these will be
found good bibliographies which will point the reader to original
sources, if he wishes to pursue the subject.

ON DRAKE. _Drake and the Tudor Navy_, in two volumes, by Julian
Corbett (1898); _Sir Francis Drake_, by the same author (1800), in the
'English Men of Action' series; _The World Encompassed_, by Francis
Fletcher (1628). See also the article on Drake in the _Dictionary of
National Biography_.

ON VITUS BERING AND THE RUSSIANS. _Peter the Great_, by Williams
(1859); _Peter the Great_, by Motley (1877); Coxe's _Discoveries of the
Russians_ (1781); Lauridsen's _Vitus Bering_ (1885); Laut's _Vikings of
the Pacific_ (1905).

ON COOK AND VANCOUVER. Cook's _Voyage to the Pacific Ocean_ (1784);
Ledyard's _Journal of Cook's Last Voyage_ (1783); Sir Walter Besant's
_Captain Cook_ (1890), in the 'English Men of Action' series; Kitson's
_Captain James Cook, the Circumnavigator_ (1907); Vancouver's _Voyage
of {133} Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean_ (1798). See also the
articles on Cook and Vancouver in the _Dictionary of National
Biography_.

ON THE EXPLORATIONS OF MACKENZIE, FRASER, AND THOMPSON. Mackenzie's
_Voyages_ (1801); Burpee's _Search for the Western Sea_ (1908); _Fur
Traders of the Far West_, by Alexander Ross (1855); Laut's _Conquest of
the Great Northwest_ (1908); _Canada and its Provinces_, vol. iv (1914).

ON THE FUR TRADERS BEYOND THE ROCKIES. Morice's _History of the
Northern Interior of British Columbia_ (1904); _Sir James Douglas_, by
Coats and Gosnell (1908), in the 'Makers of Canada' series;