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From: Pat Connors <>
Subject: [HudsonRV] more on Henry Hudson article...
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 14:08:55 -0800

from the Daily News, by Jay Maeder...

Twice already Hudson's previous explorations had found nothing but walls
of Greenland ice; twice he had gone home a failure. Now London had no
further use for him. Amsterdam, on the other hand, was prepared to
receive him more cordially and Henry Hudson changed masters. On the
fourth day of April (1609), under contract to the empire-building Dutch
East India Co., he sailed for a third time.

And, but for a crew of shivering malcontents who rose up in mutiny when
Hudson yet again hit the frozen seas somewhere off Norway and forced him
to change course toward warmer climes away from the fogs and floes, The
Great River That Runs Two Ways would have taken its modern name from
some other sailor at some other point in the glorious forward-flowing
accident called history.

more to come...

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