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From: Pat Connors <>
Subject: [HudsonRV] the final installment of Henry Hudson And The Great River...
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 07:14:42 -0800

from an article in the Daily News by Jay Maeder.


Henry Hudson never saw his river again. After reporting back to the
Dutch East India Company, he returned to English employ and in April
1610 set out a fourth time to find the lost Arctic sea. Aboard the ship
Discoverer, his crew remained as mutinously surly as ever; late in June
1611, deep in Hudson's Bay, they finally settled matters by putting him
over the side and cheering as his forlorn little shallop disappeared
forever into the fog.

But by now, the merchant princes of Amsterdam had taken excited note of
the river and its possibilities. France might have done the same in
1524, after the Florentine navigator Giovanni da Verrazano first
discovered the river, but King Francois I had other things to think
about; Spain might have done so in 1526, but her explorer Esteban Gomez
had been so little impressed with his find that he just shrugged and
sailed away. In the accident that is history, this moment now belonged
to the Dutch. In another dozen years there would be a permanent
settlement here in this very good land. Someday it would be the capital
of the world.

End of article...

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