Includes bibliographical references and index

Account of the "sacred expedition," 1769 / Juan Crespí -- Journal of the first Spanish ship to enter San Francisco Bay, 1775 / Vicente Santa María -- Account of the founding of Mission Dolores, 1776 / Francisco Palóu -- from A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, 1792 / George Vancouver -- The Rezanov voyage, 1806 / Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov and George von Langsdorff -- from A voyage around the world, 1816 / Adelbert von Chamisso -- Picturing a world transformed -- from Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, 1826 / Frederick William Beechey -- from Two years before the mast, 1835-36 / Richard Henry Dana, Jr. -- from An overland journey around the world, 1841-42 / Sir George Simpson -- from What I saw in California, 1846 / Edwin Bryant -- Reminiscences of early San Francisco, 1847-48 / Edward Kemble

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