History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time . Amsterdam which still bears his name, where cold andhunger transformed the silent discontent ofhis crew into open mutiny, and they left thefearless navigator to perish amid the ice-bergs of the frozen north. Hudson had sent to Holland a report ofthe Great River and the country bordering ^vk ^^^ * m p^^ Itomt^&S&tf&p^: i \. ^^m. Peter Stuyvesant. (OH I 1614] NEW NETHERLAND 169 it, rich in fur-bearing animals, and it hadexcited eager interest. Private individualssent expeditions thither and carried on aprof
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time . Amsterdam which still bears his name, where cold andhunger transformed the silent discontent ofhis crew into open mutiny, and they left thefearless navigator to perish amid the ice-bergs of the frozen north. Hudson had sent to Holland a report ofthe Great River and the country bordering ^vk ^^^ * m p^^ Itomt^&S&tf&p^: i \. ^^m. Peter Stuyvesant. (OH I 1614] NEW NETHERLAND 169 it, rich in fur-bearing animals, and it hadexcited eager interest. Private individualssent expeditions thither and carried on aprofitable trade with the natives. A fewDutch were here when, in 1613, CaptainArgall sailed from Virginia against theFrench at Port Royal, Acadia, now Annap-olis in Nova Scotia, who were encroachingupon the English possessions on the coastof Maine. He compelled them to surren-der. On his return, he visited the Dutchtraders of Manhattan Island, and forcedthem also, as it had been discovered byCabot in 1497, to acknowledge the sov-ereignty of Englandover this entire was in 1614 thatthe Dutch States-Gen-eral, in the chartergiven to a company ofmerchants, named theHudson Valley NewNetherland. To facil-itate trade this company made a treaty withthe Five Nations and subordinate tribes,
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