Essentials of United States history . detwo voyages in search of a northern passage to India. He hadcarefully explored Greenland and the waters north of Europeas far as Nova Zembla, and had gone nearer to the northpole than any other navigator of that time. He desired to make another exploration,but the English merchantswho employed him wereunwilling to spend moremoney on what appeareda useless undertaking. Hetherefore offered his ser-vices to the Dutch EastIndia Company and theywere A ship ofeighty tons, called the HalfMoon, was fitted out, andon the 4th of April, 1609,Hudson set s
Essentials of United States history . detwo voyages in search of a northern passage to India. He hadcarefully explored Greenland and the waters north of Europeas far as Nova Zembla, and had gone nearer to the northpole than any other navigator of that time. He desired to make another exploration,but the English merchantswho employed him wereunwilling to spend moremoney on what appeareda useless undertaking. Hetherefore offered his ser-vices to the Dutch EastIndia Company and theywere A ship ofeighty tons, called the HalfMoon, was fitted out, andon the 4th of April, 1609,Hudson set sail from theZuyder first followed his oldtrack to the north, but being stopped by the ice he turnedhis ship towards America, in the hope of finding a passageto the Pacific somewhere to the north of Chesapeake landed at the mouth of the Penobscot River, cut downa pine tree for a new mainmast, and carefully explored the »The Dutch East India Company was a great organization designed tocarry on trade with India and Henry Hudson. THE MIDDLE COLONIES 57 coast to the south. Finally he entered the present harborof New York and went up the river now known by Discoveryhis name, until the waters measured only seven of Hudsonfeet in depth. There he turned his prow down the Rlver-river and directed his course homeward, since the autumn wastoo far advanced for further explorations to the 63. The Dutch Settlements. — Hudson, in his report to theEast India Company, said that the country .he had visitedwas as fair a land as could be trodden by the foot of man; thatit was the finest for cultivation that he had ever seen; that itwas well covered with great trees of every description, andthat it abounded in fur-bearing animals. Dutch merchantssoon discovered that the fur trade was profitable, and in 1613built a few log houses on Manhattan Island and the next yeara fort near the present city of Albany. About the same time,Adrian Block, a Dutch navigator, made a voy
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