. The Catskill Mountains; . Whetht-r it was Henrv Hudson. Verrazano. Gomez, orsome earlier navigator, who first sailed up the Hudson river,which was then called Cohohatatia, by the Indians, meaningriver of the mountains, is now open to question. But it is suf-ficient to note here that when Hudson llrst ventured up thenoble stream in i6oq in his quaint Dutch ship, the attractionsof the Catskills were such that he was induced to cast anchor. THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS. 29 and make a short inspection. He was received with markedhospitahty by the Iroquois Indians, then in possession of theregion. Into
. The Catskill Mountains; . Whetht-r it was Henrv Hudson. Verrazano. Gomez, orsome earlier navigator, who first sailed up the Hudson river,which was then called Cohohatatia, by the Indians, meaningriver of the mountains, is now open to question. But it is suf-ficient to note here that when Hudson llrst ventured up thenoble stream in i6oq in his quaint Dutch ship, the attractionsof the Catskills were such that he was induced to cast anchor. THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS. 29 and make a short inspection. He was received with markedhospitahty by the Iroquois Indians, then in possession of theregion. Into their rude bark hut, which was stored with cornand beans, they took the curious navigator and his small partyof sailors. Upon the ground floor, mats were spread in theirhonor, and here they partook of food from a large wooden bowlor tray. The flesh of a fattened dog, which had been killed forthe feast, was among the tempting viands prepared for thewhite visitors, who seem to have been in no hurry to returnto their ship. The record then closes with this quaint, aborigi-nal scene and does not re-open until sixty-nine years later;leaving us to assume that the region remained in the peacefulpossession of the red men during that long period. But thiswas the dawn of the Dutch occupation. On the eighth of Julv,1678, the purchase of a large portion of this mountain regionwas effected bv a company of Dutch and English confere
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