Hudson and Fulton; a brief history of Henry Hudson and Robert Fulton . safe passage, they wereto reward him as they saw fit. And if, in that case, theDirectors should determine to follow up the discovery byother voyages, Hudson and his family were to take uptheir residence in Holland and Hudson was to accept em-ployment with no other company. In making this contract, Hudson, who could not speakDutch, was assisted by Jodocus Hondius as interpreter, andin the Dutch copy of the contract preserved in The Hague —not the original, but a Dutch copy — Hudsons first nameis spelled three times Henry. Th
Hudson and Fulton; a brief history of Henry Hudson and Robert Fulton . safe passage, they wereto reward him as they saw fit. And if, in that case, theDirectors should determine to follow up the discovery byother voyages, Hudson and his family were to take uptheir residence in Holland and Hudson was to accept em-ployment with no other company. In making this contract, Hudson, who could not speakDutch, was assisted by Jodocus Hondius as interpreter, andin the Dutch copy of the contract preserved in The Hague —not the original, but a Dutch copy — Hudsons first nameis spelled three times Henry. That was the way in whichhe signed it, and as he was an Englishman it is a mistaketo call him Hendrick. On February 25, 1906, Governor Discovery of the Hudson River 25 Higgins gave his ofificial opinion to the effect that the nameshould be spelled Henry. The ship which was fitted out for Hudson was namedDe Halve Maene, or the Half Moon. The people of Hol-land to-day are building an exact reproduction of thatfamous vessel and next fall it will be seen in the Hudson. river just as its prototype was seen 300 years before. It willseem like a very small boat when it passes the great oceansteamers, 700 feet long, in New York harbor, for it willmeasure only feet over all, feet on the waterline, feet in breadth, and feet deep (Englishmeasure). It will have three masts. On the foremast willbe a square foresail and foretopsail. On the main mast will 26 Brief History of Hudson and Fulton be a square mainsail and maintopsail. On the mizzen mastwill be a triangular latteen rigged sail. Across the bowsprit will be rigged a yard from which will hang a squaresail called in former times a sprit-sail. The boat, whichwill be of about 80 tons burden, will be high in the sternand bow and low amidships, and will look different fromanything seen in these waters since the facsimiles of Colum-buss caravels went up the river bound for the Chicago ex-position in 1893. Hudsons Fa
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