Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1865-1872, 1868-12-11

BY ABBE SAGE. aisi-ss IS =
Those children who have sailed from
New York city up the river, which Is
sometimes called the Hudson and sone-
times the North River, illremember how
beautiful . stream it is, They. will re-
call the banks on each side, dotted with
handsome country seats and lovely gar
dens; the pretty little villages which the
railroad runs through; the hundreds OF
sailboats, ships and steamboats, which go
up and down day and night; and the life
and hustle everywhere. i am going to
tell you about the man for whom this
river was named, and describe to you
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Henry Hudson was the name Of the
famous dietoverer. tie was born in Eng
land, and reared to follow the sea. The
aim Of all the captains Of bis time-and
indeed for q century before him-had
been to discover short route to India
aud China, so that they might not be OBJ
liged to sail long distance to trade for
their teas, and coffee, and spices They
had to sail around the Cape Of Good Hope;
and thus the distance from London to
China was about twenty -ope thousand
miles. II they could ind . passage
through the American Continent, it
would be only nine thousand miles.
SO, in 1907, Henry Hudson sailed to
see if he could End q passage straight
;seross the North Pole into the Pacific
Ocean. OF course, be didn't succeed in
this; but he was persevering, and his
failure did not prevent his trying again
aud again. After he had made two yoy.
ages for some English merchants, they
thought they couldn't afford TO risk any
more ships in such an undertaking; and
then he offered himself us captain of the
Dutch East India Company, in Holland
a company Of very rich traders with the
East.
They fitted him out again, and iu 1868
he sailed on third voyage. This tine
he touched the shores of North America
further south than ever before. lie su.
chorcd first on the shores Of Maine, which
was then great wilderness Of tall pine
trees. Then be sailed all along the coast
of New England, which looked very lonely
aud bleak, for this was thirteen years be-
fore the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth
Rock, and there was not a single white
man on all ia shores. So Hudson sailed
.euthwsrd TO New York Bay, aud then
up into the harbor, aud than into the
month Of this beautiful river. But his
mind was 50 full of the Pacific Ocea % !,
which he was always hoping 10 dnd by
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ncnt, and coming suddenly into the open
kea, that he persuaded himself this great
river was only channel which led Into
this imaginary sea. from which he could
sail into the Pacific aud 20 straight over
10 China.
This seems very absurd to us now,
when every little place upon our whole
globe Is laid down upon the maps. but
Hudson did not have such maps. lie
was one Of the men who by their dis
coyeries, have helped US to make them.
Two hundred and fifty years ago, even
the great sea-captains knew very little
about geography.
+. Well he ssiIed up the pleasant river, In
the plessant month OF September. All
along the banks where now are the fine
eoa"',y houses aud the prss.y, villages,
were indan wigwams, aud helds yellow
With iudian sora. Aud the savages.
hoo''ng a"d Yelling irooPed to the shore.
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frehy soon the Indians began TO ven
tare TO the ship, bringing corn and other
vegetables IN their boats. Hudson gave
'nem' IN return, axes, and knives, aud
shoes aud cotton cloth. of course, these
were all cufiositles to the wild people OF
TIE forest. aud they hardly knew what TO
DO WIN .nem. 1he next tune they came
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shoes around their necks, aud axes aud
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W.. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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