Alexander Baranof [pp. 9-22]

LANDING AT FORT ROSS, CALIFORNIA Helen J. Smith
with cabins, deckhouses, and new sails and
rigging. The Shelikof company was very
proud of their own vessel, built in their own
yard, and henceforth she made regular trips
between Okhotsk and the American colonies.
In 1795 Baranof built and launched two
more vessels, the Dolphin and the Olga.
It has been said that the Shelikof company was not the only trading company doing
business in Russian America. About five
years before Baranof took charge of affairs
at Kadiak the Lebedef company had sent a
vessel with thirty-eight men thither, but the
agents of the Shelikof company, not wishing
to have their hunting-grounds encroached
upon, recommended them to go on to Cook's
Inlet, where they established a permanent
settlement, named Saint George, consisting
SALI,LY PORT AT FORT ROSS, CALIFORNIA
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