Robert Gray

The Revolutionary War was over, and the vessels were almost idle.

Captain Robert Gray was one of these New England captains.

Both he and Captain Mires had some interesting adventures, as the next few chapters will show.

End of chapter 2 Chapter 3 of Early Days of Old Oregon by Catherine Berry Judson This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.

Then he said in his logbook, without the slightest respect for English grammar, We can now with safety assert that there is no such river as that of St. Roch exists as laid down in the Spanish charts.

Then the ungrammatical captain turned around and sailed back to Nootka Sound.

This happened four years before Captain Robert Gray from Boston daringly sailed into that bay and found it was the mouth of the Columbia River.

But the name Cape Disappointment sticks to that headland even today.

The Revolutionary War was over, and the vessels were almost idle.

Captain Robert Gray was one of these New England captains.

Both he and Captain Mires had some interesting adventures, as the next few chapters will show.

End of chapter 2 Chapter 3 of Early Days of Old Oregon by Catherine Berry Judson This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.

Then he said in his logbook, without the slightest respect for English grammar, We can now with safety assert that there is no such river as that of St. Roch exists as laid down in the Spanish charts.

Then the ungrammatical captain turned around and sailed back to Nootka Sound.

This happened four years before Captain Robert Gray from Boston daringly sailed into that bay and found it was the mouth of the Columbia River.

But the name Cape Disappointment sticks to that headland even today.

The Revolutionary War was over, and the vessels were almost idle.

Captain Robert Gray was one of these New England captains.

Both he and Captain Mires had some interesting adventures, as the next few chapters will show.

End of chapter 2 Chapter 3 of Early Days of Old Oregon by Catherine Berry Judson This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.

Then he said in his logbook, without the slightest respect for English grammar, We can now with safety assert that there is no such river as that of St. Roch exists as laid down in the Spanish charts.

Then the ungrammatical captain turned around and sailed back to Nootka Sound.

This happened four years before Captain Robert Gray from Boston daringly sailed into that bay and found it was the mouth of the Columbia River.

But the name Cape Disappointment sticks to that headland even today.

But here's the detail that really gets me.

Her captain, Robert Gray, sailed her into a river on the Pacific Coast that had never been charted by any American before, and he named that river after his own ship.

That's the Columbia River, friends.

The actual, real, still on every map today Columbia River, named after that very ship this Disneyland attraction is modeled on.

The Revolutionary War was over, and the vessels were almost idle.

Captain Robert Gray was one of these New England captains.

Both he and Captain Mires had some interesting adventures, as the next few chapters will show.

End of chapter 2 Chapter 3 of Early Days of Old Oregon by Catherine Berry Judson This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.

Then he said in his logbook, without the slightest respect for English grammar, We can now with safety assert that there is no such river as that of St. Roch exists as laid down in the Spanish charts.

Then the ungrammatical captain turned around and sailed back to Nootka Sound.

This happened four years before Captain Robert Gray from Boston daringly sailed into that bay and found it was the mouth of the Columbia River.

But the name Cape Disappointment sticks to that headland even today.

The Revolutionary War was over, and the vessels were almost idle.

Captain Robert Gray was one of these New England captains.

Both he and Captain Mires had some interesting adventures, as the next few chapters will show.

End of chapter 2 Chapter 3 of Early Days of Old Oregon by Catherine Berry Judson This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.

Then he said in his logbook, without the slightest respect for English grammar, We can now with safety assert that there is no such river as that of St. Roch exists as laid down in the Spanish charts.

Then the ungrammatical captain turned around and sailed back to Nootka Sound.

This happened four years before Captain Robert Gray from Boston daringly sailed into that bay and found it was the mouth of the Columbia River.

But the name Cape Disappointment sticks to that headland even today.

This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.

Chapter five, When Captain Gray Crossed the Terrible Bar.

Out from Boston Harbor in September seventeen ninety went a little sailing ship laden with many things bound for the northwest coast of America.

On board was a cargo of coffee, tea, chocolate, sugar, flour, salt beef, salt pork, butter, cheese, molasses, and twenty-seven thousand pounds of hard, dry ship's bread.

Besides food, Captain Gray had also on board sea coal, bars of iron and bars of lead, gunpowder, shot, guns, Indian trading goods, tar and pitch, and two thousand bricks.

There were thirty men in the crew, and the vessel was armed with ten large ship's guns.

These were for defense against pirates and Indians.

Gray and Kendrick, who were sent out by the same firm of ship owners and fur traders, had exchanged vessels that fall.

The Revolutionary War was over, and the vessels were almost idle.

Captain Robert Gray was one of these New England captains.

Both he and Captain Mires had some interesting adventures, as the next few chapters will show.

End of chapter 2 Chapter 3 of Early Days of Old Oregon by Catherine Berry Judson.

Then he said in his logbook, without the slightest respect for English grammar, We can now with safety assert that there is no such river as that of St. Roch exists as laid down in the Spanish charts.

Then the ungrammatical captain turned around and sailed back to Nootka Sound.

This happened four years before Captain Robert Gray from Boston daringly sailed into that bay and found it was the mouth of the Columbia River.

But the name Cape Disappointment sticks to that headland even today.