hard by it there was a cliffe, that looked of the colour of a white greene, as though it were either copper or silver myne:  and I thinke it to be one of them, by the trees that grow upon it.  For they be all burned, and the other places are greene as grasse; it is on that side of the river that is called Mannahata.  There we saw no people to trouble us:  and rode quietly all night; but had much wind and raine....

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]