The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-05-08

circular wigwam. Mats were spread to sit upon, and eatables were passed around in a well-made red wooden bowl. Indians brought in pigeons, fat dog was killed, skinned with sharp shells and roasted, and altogether they had a sumptuous repast. They urged Hudson to stay all night, and on his declining as the Indians supposed through fear they broke their bows and arrows in pieces, and threw them into the fire. On the twenty-third the " HalfMoon !" reached point supposed to be now Gas tie island, not far from Albany. From thence Hudson sent a boat several leagues farther up the river to measure the water, which they reported as seven 1 foot and unconstant soundings." Add i ing up the miles and leagues recorded in his journal of his daily progress up the | river, we find them recorded at l53 miles, which, considering they were guessed at, is very near as the entire dis tance from New York to Waterford is about that. This guessing record in cludes the number of leagues that the small boat explored above the point reached by the Half-Moon.
 Hudson gave a glowing description of the country, which was incorporated in the elaborate book of De Laet, director and the Dutch historian of the West India company, Hudson said "The land was of the finest kind for tillage, and as beautiful as the foot of man ever trod upon. The boat Hudson sent ahead went past the present sites of Albany and Troy to the four sprouts l (oYr,,VtauA nf ho Moho,rI< ;t, spreading branches flow into the Hud- son opposite Lansingburgh. The Indian name of the country about the mouth of the Mohawk was Nach-te-nak, and l Hudson named the noble stream which now bears his name the River of the | Mountains. The river abounded in great store of salmons, mulletts, breams, bases, barbils " and other fishes, and the banks of the river were lined with great store of goodly oaks, and walnut trees, and chestnut trees, eve trees and trees of sweet wood in great abundance, and great store of slate for houses, and other good stones" At the mouth of the river the white strangers were teasted with good oysters, and far therup with vcnison, game, pompions, tour Yankee "punkins, roast dog, chestnuts and other delicacics of the forest, the chase and the streams. They had good, jolly time. Hudson got one of the old chiefs, who was governor drunk, by giving him his first introduce ton to wine and a4uaVtG. The Indians generally were most hospitable and friendly. Notwithstandis all this friendliness, Hudson, according to his own story, and his mariners, managed to get up quarrel with the Indians, and to kill a dozen or SO of the savages on the voyage down the river How true it is that
 Coming events cast their shadows bcfore.'
 Thus Hudson, the first white man within the state of New York, gave the Indians tire-water and marked his inter course with them by murder and blood shed This is typical, and almost the exact counterpart of the relations of the whites and the Indians on this con tiuent from the days of Hudson down to the present time The death of John Coleman in the waters of New York har- Dor, by violence was significant of the criminal future of the great metropolis of the new world. During the last half of the present century there have been more deaths by violence in New York city than in any other city of the world. John Coleman was the first white man who met his death within the limits of what is now the empire state.
 How different the scenes and sights that now meet the eye along the storied river from where it enters into the sea to Mount Marcy where it has its source, from what they were nearly two hun dred and seventy-tve years ago, when lIudsons little Dutch galliot of eighty tons, with two masts and square sails, y first furrowed with her prov the virgin waters of the most grandly historic stream of the western continenti-Trog Budget