![]() ![]() Put into a whaleboat with his teenaged son, and several ill but loyal crew members, he watched as the mutineers, including his long-time first mate Robert Juet, sailed back toward England. ![]() And then, on his fourth voyage, Hudson was subjected to a mutiny in the cold waters of the Canadian arctic. Ostracized by his British countrymen for claiming territory for another nation he was unable to return home to his wife and children. Defeated but undeterred, he returned to Holland to report his findings, claimed the land for the Dutch crown, and went north again, this time to the west. Finally, north of present-day Albany, he encountered the natural waterfall that is today the Troy-Menands dam. He sailed north, encountering Lenape, Wappinger, Esopus, and Mahican peoples along the way. When he came to present-day New York Harbor, with its deep but treacherous bay, and saw the wide expanse of the Hudson, he headed north, determined to follow it to its end, be that the Pacific Ocean or something else entirely. So he turned and sailed west and then down the North Atlantic coast. He had been commissioned to look for a Northeast Passage to Asia over Russia, but arctic exploration (this was his third expedition north) was beginning to pall. A 16th and 17th century British explorer, Henry Hudson is best known for his "discovery" of two bodies of water later named after him: the Hudson River in present-day New York, and Hudson's Bay along the Arctic coast of present-day Canada.Īt the time of his discovery of what he called the Great North River, he was working for the Dutch East India Company. ![]()
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