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Page 56
We continued our course toward England, without seeing any land by the
way, all the rest of this moneth of October: and on the seventh day of
November, stilo novo, being Saturday, by the grace of God we safely
arrived in the range of Dartmouth, in Devonshire, in the yeere 1609.
[1] Juet, on a previous voyage with Hudson, had been Hudson's
mate, but on the voyage to New York Harbor he was his clerk and
kept a journal. From this document, which is included in the "Old
South Leaflets," the account here given is taken. Hudson himself
also kept a journal, but this has been lost. It is curious that
Juet, on the last voyage which Hudson made--the one to Hudson Bay,
in which he was sent adrift in a small boat and left to
perish--became the leader in the mutiny.
Before coming to America, Henry Hudson, an Englishman in Dutch
service, had sailed to the east coast of Greenland, visited
Spitzbergen, and attempted to find a northeast passage from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. It was his attempt to find a northwest
passage which led him, in September, 1609, into the harbor of New
York and up the river named after him. In the following year he
sailed again from Holland, seeking a northwest passage and thus
entered Hudson Bay. Here he spent the winter. In the following
June, when about to return home, the crew mutinied; Hudson, and
eight others, were seized, bound and set afloat in a small boat
that was never heard from again.
[2] Sandy Hook.
[3] Probably Staten Island.
[4] Coney Island.
[5] The Narrows.
[6] Moulton, in his "History of New York," inclines to the view
that this point was near what is now known as Manhattanville in
New York City.
[7] This was in the neighborhood of Stony Point.
[8] The Catskill Mountains.
[9] The neighborhood of Albany.
[10] Moulton's view is that this encounter took place near Fort
Washington, New York City.
CHAMPLAIN'S BATTLE WITH THE IROQUOIS ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN
(1609)
BY CHAMPLAIN HIMSELF[1]
We continued our course to the entrance of Lake St. Peter, where the
country is exceedingly pleasant and level, and crossed the lake, in
two, three, and four fathoms of water, which is some eight leagues
long and four wide. On the north side, we saw a very pleasant river,
extending some twenty leagues into the interior, which I named St.
Suzanne; on the south side, there are two, one called Rivi�re du Pont,
the other Rivi�re de Gennes, which are very pretty, and in a fine and
fertile country. The water is almost still in the lake, which is full
of fish. On the north bank, there are seen some slight elevations at a
distance of some twelve or fifteen leagues from the lake. After
crossing the lake, we passed a large number of islands of various
sizes, containing many nut trees and vines, and fine meadows, with
quantities of game and wild animals, which go over from the main land
to these islands. Fish are here more abundant than in any other part
of the river that we have seen. From these islands, we went to the
mouth of the River of the Iroquois,[2] where we stayed two days,
refreshing ourselves with good venison, birds, and fish, which the
savages gave us. Here there sprang up among them some difference of
opinion on the subject of the war, so that a portion only determined
to go with me, while the others returned to their country with their
wives and the merchandise which they had obtained by barter.
I set out accordingly from the fall of the Iroquois River on the 2d of
July. All the savages set to carrying their canoes, arms, and baggage
overland, some half a league, in order to pass by the violence and
strength of the fall, which was speedily accomplished....
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