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pubOne.info present you this new edition. 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.

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ON HUDSON'S VOYAGE
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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: CharlesScribner's Sons, 1909.
We have observed in our last book that the Directorsof the East India Company in Holland had sent out in March last, onpurpose to seek a passage to China by northeast or northwest, askilful English pilot, named Henry Hudson, in a Vlie boat, having acrew of eighteen or twenty men, partly English, partly Dutch, wellprovided.
This Henry Hudson left the Texel on the 6th ofApril, 1609, doubled the Cape of Norway the 5th of May, anddirected 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 thepreceding year, so that they lost the hope of effecting anythingduring the season. This circumstance, and the cold, which some ofhis men, who had been in the East Indies, could not bear, causedquarrels among the crew, they being partly English, partly Dutch,upon which Captain Hudson laid before them two propositions. Thefirst of these was to go to the coast of America, to the latitudeof 40 degrees, moved thereto mostly by letters and maps which acertain Captain Smith had sent him from Virginia, and by which heindicated to him a sea leading into the western ocean, by the northof the southern English colony. Had this information been true(experience goes as yet to the contrary), it would have been ofgreat advantage, as indicating a short way to India. The otherproposition was to direct their search through Davis's Straits.This meeting with general approval, they sailed thitherward on the14th of May, and arrived on the last day of May with a good wind atthe Faroe Islands, where they stopped but twenty-four hours, tosupply themselves with fresh water. After leaving these islands,they sailed on, till on the 18th of July they reached the coast ofNova Francia, under 44 degrees, where they were obliged to run in,in order to get a new foremast, having lost theirs. They found one,and set it up. They found this a good place for cod-fishing, asalso for traffic in good skins and furs, which were to be got thereat a very low price. But the crew behaved badly towards the peopleof the country, taking their property by force, out of which therearose quarrels among themselves. The English, fearing that betweenthe two they would be outnumbered and worsted, were thereforeafraid to pursue the matter further. So they left that place on the26th of July, and kept out at sea till the 3d of August, when theycame near the coast, in 42 degrees of latitude. Thence they sailedon, till on the 12th of August they again reached the shore, under37 degrees 45'. Thence they sailed along the shore until theyreached 40 degrees 45', where they found a good entrance, betweentwo headlands, and entered on the 12th of September into as fine ariver as can be found, wide and deep, with good anchoring ground onboth sides.
Their ship finally sailed up the river as far as 42degrees 40'. But their boat went higher up. In the lower part ofthe river they found strong and warlike people; but in the upperpart they found friendly and polite people, who had an abundance ofprovisions, skins, and furs, of martens and foxes, and many othercommodities, as birds and fruit, even white and red grapes, andthey traded amicably with the people. And of all theabove-mentioned commodities they brought some home. When they hadthus been about fifty leagues up the river, they returned on the4th of October, and went again to sea. More could have been done ifthere had been good-will among the crew and if the want of somenecessary provisions had not prevented it. While at sea, they heldcounsel together, but were of different opinions. The mate, aDutchman, advised to winter in Newfoundland, and to search thenorthwestern passage of Davis throughout. This was opposed bySkipper Hudson. He was afraid of his mutinous crew, who hadsometimes savagely threatened him; and he feared that during thecold season they would entirely consume their provisions, and wouldthen be obliged to return, [with] many of the crewill and sickly. Nobody, however, spoke of returning home toHolland, which circumstance made the captain still more suspicious.He proposed therefore to sail to Ireland, and winter there, whichthey all agreed to. At last they arrived at Dartmouth, in England,the 7th of November, whence they informed their employers, theDirectors in Holland, of their voyage. They proposed to them to goout again for a search in the northwest, and that, besides the pay,and what they already had in the ship, fifteen hundred florinsshould be laid out for an additional supply of provisions. He [Hudson] also wanted six or seven of his crewexchanged for others, and their number raised to twenty. He wouldthen sail from Dartmouth about the 1st of March, so as to be in thenorthwest towards the end of that month, and there to spend thewhole of April and the first half of May in killing whales andother animals in the neighborhood of Panar Island, then to sail tothe northwest, and there to pass the time till the middle ofSeptember, and then to return to Holland around the northeasterncoast of Scotland. Thus this voyage ended.
A long time elapsed, through contrary winds, beforethe Company could be informed of the arrival of the ship inEngland. Then they ordered the ship and crew to return as soon aspossible. But, when this was about to be done, Skipper Henry Hudsonand the other Englishmen of the ship were commanded by thegovernment there not to leave [England] , but toserve their own country. Many persons thought it strange thatcaptains should thus be prevented from laying their accounts andreports before their employers, having been sent out for thebenefit of navigation in general. This took place in January, [1610] ; and it was thought probably that the Englishthemselves would send ships to Virginia, to explore further theaforesaid river.
LETTER OF ISAACK DE RASIERES
Isaack de Rasieres, Letter of Isaack de Rasieres toSamuel Blommaert, 1628. In J. Franklin Jameson, ed. , Narratives ofNew Netherland, 1609-1664 (Original Narratives of Early AmericanHistory). NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909.
Mr. Blommaert:
As I feel myself much bound to your service, and inreturn know not how otherwise to recompense you than by this slightmemoir, (wherein I have in part comprised as much as was in mypower concerning the situation of New Netherland and its neighbors,and should in many things have been able to treat of or write thesame more in detail, and better than I have now done, but that mythings and notes, which would have been of service to me herein,have been taken away from me), I will beg you to be pleased toreceive this, on account of my bounden service, etc.
On the 27th of July, Anno 1626, by the help of God,I arrived with the ship The Arms of Amsterdam, before the bay ofthe great Mauritse River, sailing into it about a musket shot fromGodyn's Point, into Coenraet's Bay; (because there the greatestdepth is, since from the east point there stretches out a sand bankon which there is only from 9 to 14 feet of water), then sailed on,northeast and north-northeast, to about half way from the low sandbank called Godyn's Point to the Hamels-Hoofden, the mouth of theriver, where we found at half ebb 16, 17, 18 feet water, and whichis a sandy reef a musket shot broad, stretching for the most partnortheast and southwest, quite across, and, according to myopinion, having been formed there by the stream, inasmuch as theflood runs into the bay from the sea, east-southeast; the depth atGodyn's Point is caused by the tide flowing out along there withsuch rapidity.
Between the Hamels-Hoofden the width is about acannon's shot of 2, 000 [yards] ; the depth 10, 11,12 fathoms. They are tolerably high points, and well wooded. Thewest point is an island, inhabited by from 80 to 90 savages, whosupport themselves by planting maize. The east point is a verylarge island, full 24-leagues long, stretching east by south andeast-southeast along the sea-coast, from the river to the east endof the Fisher's Hook. In some places it is from three to fourleagues broad, and it has several creeks and bays, where manysavages dwell, who support themselves by planting maize and makingsewan, and who are called Souwenos and Sinnecox. It is also full ofoaks, elms, walnut and fir trees, also wild cedar and chestnuttrees. The tribes are held in subjection by, and are tributary to,the Pyquans, hereafter named. The land is in many places good, andfit for ploughing and sowing. It has many fine valleys, where thereis good grass. Their form of government is like that of theirneighbors, which is described hereafter.
The Hamels-Hoofden being passed, there is about aleague width in the river, and also on the west side there is aninlet, where another river runs up about twenty leagues, to thenorth-northeast, emptying into the Mauritse River in the highlands,thus making the northwest land opposite to the Manhatas an islandeighteen leagues long. It is inhabited by the old Manhatans [Manhatesen] ; they are about 200 to 300 strong,women and men, under different chiefs, whom they call Sackimas.This island is more mountainous than the other land on thesoutheast side of the river, which opposite to the Manhatas isabout a league and half in breadth. At the side of thebefore-mentioned little river, which we call “Achter Col, ” thereis a great deal of waste reedy land; the rest is full of trees, andin some places there is good soil, where the savages plant theirmaize, upon which they live, as well as by hunting. The other sideof the same small river, according to conjecture, is about 20 to 23leagues broad to the South River, in the neighborhood of theSancicans, in so far as I have been able to make it out from themouths of the savages; but as they live in a state of con