. The first American Civil War, first period 1775-1778, with chapters on the continental or revolutionary army and on the forces of the crown . the first European whostrayed into New York harbour. No one within mention, it wouldseem, is ever the first to do anything in particular, yet in 1650 thesettlers on Manhattan said : that in the year of Christ 1609, was thecountry of which we now propose to speak, first founded and dis-covered, at the expense of the General East Indian Company, by theship Half-Moon, whereof Henry Hudson was Master and Factor ;cf. History of the City of New York, Van Ren
. The first American Civil War, first period 1775-1778, with chapters on the continental or revolutionary army and on the forces of the crown . the first European whostrayed into New York harbour. No one within mention, it wouldseem, is ever the first to do anything in particular, yet in 1650 thesettlers on Manhattan said : that in the year of Christ 1609, was thecountry of which we now propose to speak, first founded and dis-covered, at the expense of the General East Indian Company, by theship Half-Moon, whereof Henry Hudson was Master and Factor ;cf. History of the City of New York, Van Rensselaer, p. 3 (1909), - Robert Juet, mate of the Half-Moon, narrates how the Master(Hudson) deliberately made some Indian visitors drunk to triewhether they had any treachery in them. Juets narrative is givenat length in Hakluyt^s Voyages. 3 The cash value to-day of this purchase of Manhattan istwenty-four dollars. The price was paid in kind as mentionedabove. A similar transaction in a British Colony took place withinliving memory. Land was bought in Connecticut Valley at thistime (1628) for knives, axes, a pair of shears and some o t X 3 XI NEW YORK 103 is an island in the sense that Rhode Island or Thanetis an island. At the north end of the island a cross-cutbetween the Hudson and the East River completes thecircuit of water. This cross-cut connects the Hudsonwith the Harlem River and is now canalised throughout. At the head of the navigable river, on the left to thetraveller going upstream, rose a little settlement, witha block-house, for trade in furs and peltry, now theimportant city of Albany. On the same bank, withimmediate access to the stream, lay the great Indiancompound or settlement, occupied by a powerful people,known subsequently to the French as Iroquois, but tothe English settlers as the Mohock or Mohawk : thechief and most active element in the confederacy cele-brated in later colonial history as the Long House or theSix Nations.^ There was generally p
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