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Title: Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664

Author: Various

Posting Date: October 25, 2008 [EBook #2128]
Release Date: April, 2000

Language: English

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Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664

CONTENTS

ON HUDSON'S VOYAGE
LETTER OF ISAACK DE RASIERES
MEGAPOLENSIS ON THE MOHAWKS (Part 1)
MEGAPOLENSIS ON THE MOHAWKS (Part 2)
LETTER AND NARRATIVE OF FATHER ISAAC JOGUES

ON HUDSON'S VOYAGE

Reference material and sources.

Emanuel Van Meteren, On Hudson's Voyage, 1610. In J. Franklin Jameson,
ed., Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664 (Original Narratives of
Early American History). NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909.

We have observed in our last book that the Directors of the East India
Company in Holland had sent out in March last, on purpose to seek a
passage to China by northeast or northwest, a skilful English pilot,
named Henry Hudson, in a Vlie boat, having a crew of eighteen or twenty
men, partly English, partly Dutch, well provided.

This Henry Hudson left the Texel on the 6th of April, 1609, doubled the
Cape of Norway the 5th of May, and directed his course along the
northern coasts towards Nova Zembia; but he there found the sea as full
of ice as he had found it in the preceding year, so that they lost the
hope of effecting anything during the season. This circumstance, and
the cold, which some of his men, who had been in the East Indies, could
not bear, caused quarrels among the crew, they being partly English,
partly Dutch, upon which Captain Hudson laid before them two
propositions. The first of these was to go to the coast of America, to
the latitude of 40 degrees, moved thereto mostly by letters and maps
which a certain Captain Smith had sent him from Virginia, and by which
he indicated to him a sea leading into the western ocean, by the north
of the southern English colony. Had this information been true
(experience goes as yet to the contrary), it w