. Book of the Royal blue . X. determined to push northward, but his menrefused to go. Provisions were runninglow, sickness had broken out among them,they had lost confidence in their com-mander and the leeks and cucumbers ofEurope appealed to them far more stronglythan fame or fabled straits, so theymutinied. Captain Hudson, his little son,seven years old, and five sailors, who hadattempted to uphold his authority, were setadrift in an open boat and were never heardof again. Thus the man who practicallyopened up a new world to both England anilHolland perished miserably on the thresholdof his
. Book of the Royal blue . X. determined to push northward, but his menrefused to go. Provisions were runninglow, sickness had broken out among them,they had lost confidence in their com-mander and the leeks and cucumbers ofEurope appealed to them far more stronglythan fame or fabled straits, so theymutinied. Captain Hudson, his little son,seven years old, and five sailors, who hadattempted to uphold his authority, were setadrift in an open boat and were never heardof again. Thus the man who practicallyopened up a new world to both England anilHolland perished miserably on the thresholdof his discoveries. The story of the man who opened up anew era in navigation to the civilized world the plea of the artistic temperament,young Fulton applied himself so assiduouslyto his paints and brushes that at the end offour years ihe had saved enough money topurchase a small farm for his mother, onwhich he established her, rendering herindependent for the balance of her life. He was then at liberty to gratify a long-felt wish
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