Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-27
L0ST DISCOVERIES

Gilbert resolved to return to England in his
almost sinking vessel
One midnight the ships of the little feet
were within hailing distance, but at day.
break the Squirrel was nowhere to be seen.
In the storm that ragged during the night, Sir
Humphreys vessel disappeared and sank
with all on board.
For years many looked for the old admi-
rails. return, despite the tidings which the
surviving ship took back TO Falmouth; but
Sir Humphreys fate was as final and mystes
rious as that of the Cortereals.
Sir Henry Hudson is another Of the lost
discoveries whose last hours are shrouded in
mystery. he was one of the most adventur-
ous OF the early navigatcrs, and would. If he
try, with glory. Hudson was in the employ
OF Amsterdam when he was lost. His little
vessel, the Half Moon, was furnished him
by the Dutch East India Company; for every
ward or westward to the Indies. In Septem-
ber i6O9, Sir Henry entered the noble river
tnat at bears his name and sailed northward.
me Inc next next year he came back and undertook
that fatal voyage which has linked his last
days to an unsolved mystery Of the cold wa
ters of the far north.
lie followed in the track ef Frobisher,
reached the great bay which bears his name
s sno was frozen in by the cold. Spring came;
he and his son and few faithful sailors
were seized and thrown into a shallop and
cast off among the icebergs
:. That was the last seen of the illustrious
it is probable that the shailop was engulfed
lost
1t is somewhat singular that no authentic
portrait or autograph of Henry Hudson is
known to exist, though he had for friend
Jocodus Hondius, one of the first engrayers
OF the time, and one would think that por-
TRAIT ot the Inflated diseoverer had been en-
grayed by his hand; but nnremitting search
has thus far failed to. find one.
The. name of the discoverer of the long
iookedior Northwest Passage, Sir John
Franklin, is to be added to the list of the
famous lost explorers. Sir John had made
several important voyages before he set sail
Erebus and Terror, two splendid vessels, adj
mirably equipped for polar expedition.
he was last seen by \ whaler in Baffin's
Bay, and Is known. to have passed his first
ylnter y In a cove between Cape Riley and
As months passed by without bringing to
England any tidings of the expedition, ex-
piorlng parties were sent out In search OF
Sr John and his crews. Some important dis.
coverles were made by these parties. and the
map OF the polar regions was changed.
Here and there relics of the ill-fated Eng
lishrnan were found. but none of his men
were rescued It was, discovered at last, by
tock, that Sir John died IN 1S47; that the two
ships had been abandoned by their crews
which set out to reach Great Fish River One
by one, they succumbed to the rigors of the
climate until ali perished
There are other discoverers who might ba
classed among the "lost;" but those we have
mentioned are the main ones whose names
are associated with American explorations.
With the exception of the Cortereals whose
real designs seem to have been slave-hunting,
they left behind them names which add eIory
To the countries they served, and invested our
own history with a halo of imperishabie re-
EoWn.