..Under the crown, American history; . North River followed, and Hudson sailed up thisriver, between the Palisades and the beautifulbanks of forest-clad hills, seeing occasionalfields of corn and Indian wigwams. HUDSONS DISCOVERIES. 35 At first the Indians looked on the Half Moonwith terror, but seeing human beings on board,they approached in their canoes, and soon wereengaged in a friendly barter of food and fursfor knives, axes,cloth and was not longbefore a quarrelarose between thenatives and thesailors in whichone of Hudsonsmen was killed. Hudson con-tinued his explor-ation, saili
..Under the crown, American history; . North River followed, and Hudson sailed up thisriver, between the Palisades and the beautifulbanks of forest-clad hills, seeing occasionalfields of corn and Indian wigwams. HUDSONS DISCOVERIES. 35 At first the Indians looked on the Half Moonwith terror, but seeing human beings on board,they approached in their canoes, and soon wereengaged in a friendly barter of food and fursfor knives, axes,cloth and was not longbefore a quarrelarose between thenatives and thesailors in whichone of Hudsonsmen was killed. Hudson con-tinued his explor-ation, sailing upthe river as far asthe place whereAlbany now stands. There he found the chan-nel contracting, instead of widening out into thegreat western ocean, as he had hoped. His small boats returned from further search,and reported that it was only an inland back went Hudson, past the Palisades andthe narrow island that is now covered by thegreat city, back to Holland, and gave to theDutch a claim to all the region about the newly. HALF-MOON. 36 HUDSONS DISCOVERIES. discovered river. They named the countryNew Netherlands, and engaged in profitabletrade for furs with the Indians. They locatedthe headquarters of their trading company onManhattan Island, which they later bought fortwenty-four dollars, and on which there grewup an enterprising colony which they calledNew Amsterdam. In April, 1610, Hudson sailed under Englishauspices in search of a northeast passage. Onthis voyage he discovered the strait and thebay which have since borne his name. Thefollowing winter he spent on the shores ofHudson Bay. The suffering from the wantof food was great, and his crew in the springshowed a natural impatience of longer a mutinous outbreak they put their com-mander, with his son and several sick sailors,into a frail boat; and on Midsummer day,1611, they cut him adrift in the midst of thearctic waters. No further trace of the greatnavigator was ever found. Max Owen. THE FIRST YA
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