. Book of the Royal blue . ON THE HUDSON RIVER 18 THE HUDSON RIVER CENTENNIAL. HENRY HUDSON dredges across a mountain range and anarrow isthmus, instead of a bobbing corkof a sailboat across a wide and unchartedocean. Indeed, the seeking of short cutsseems to have been inherent in the humanrace since Adam recklessly squandered aworld for a short and easy road to knowl-edge. Among those who firmly believed in theexistence of a short or northwest passagewhich led directly to China was an Eng-lish sailor, by name, Henry Hudson, orHodgson. Of his birth or early life noth-ing whatever is known, but
. Book of the Royal blue . ON THE HUDSON RIVER 18 THE HUDSON RIVER CENTENNIAL. HENRY HUDSON dredges across a mountain range and anarrow isthmus, instead of a bobbing corkof a sailboat across a wide and unchartedocean. Indeed, the seeking of short cutsseems to have been inherent in the humanrace since Adam recklessly squandered aworld for a short and easy road to knowl-edge. Among those who firmly believed in theexistence of a short or northwest passagewhich led directly to China was an Eng-lish sailor, by name, Henry Hudson, orHodgson. Of his birth or early life noth-ing whatever is known, but inasmuch as theHodges and Hodgsons of rural England arethick as autumn leaves, it would bealmost as difficult to trace the genealogyof one as it would be to return a vagrantautumn leaf to its parent tree in theforest. The first known of this particular HenryHudson, or Hodgson, was in 1607, whenhe commanded a small vessel fitted out bya company of rich merchants of Londonfor the purpose of discovering the elusivepassage. On this voyage he reached Green-land and the Spitzber
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