. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. f of Mexico. When theyreached a Spanish settlement, more than four years after theyleft Cuba, only about half of their number remained alive. 10. HENRY HUDSON. The Spaniards had found gold in Mexico, but the expedi-tions which had o-one farther north had carried to the OldWorld neither gold nor precious stones,and a water route to India throughAmerica was still sought for by all ex-plorers. At the beo-innins: of the seventeenthcentury, Holland was a great maritimenation, and the Dutch wanted to find thisroute, as well as
. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. f of Mexico. When theyreached a Spanish settlement, more than four years after theyleft Cuba, only about half of their number remained alive. 10. HENRY HUDSON. The Spaniards had found gold in Mexico, but the expedi-tions which had o-one farther north had carried to the OldWorld neither gold nor precious stones,and a water route to India throughAmerica was still sought for by all ex-plorers. At the beo-innins: of the seventeenthcentury, Holland was a great maritimenation, and the Dutch wanted to find thisroute, as well as to gain possessions inAmerica. Tliey therefore sent Henry Hudson, an ^^^ H^^Englishman, with twenty men in a little vessel called the HalfMoon^ to make discoveries and to find the desired passage toIndia. He sailed from Amsterdam April 4,1609, and soon reachedNova Zembla, but the icebergs drove him back. Then hetook a more southern course and came to Newfoundland. He went down the coast of North America as far asChesapeake Bay, and then turned northward, looking care-. 50 HAZENS ELEMENTARY HISTORY. LESSON.—He sailed doAvu the coast to Chesapeake Bay, and thenwent Northvyard until he discovered the Hudson River vvrhich he exploredas far as Albany. Then he gave up reaching India through America. fully for an opening in the coast that might prove what hesought. At last he reached the great river which now hisname, and full of hope, sailed up the beautiful stivam as faras the present site of Allmny. The sailors wwe charmed by
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