Robert Remini
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Chapter 7.
New Netherland and New Sweden.
57.
The Dutch.
At this time, the Dutch were the greatest traders and ship owners in the world.
They were especially interested in the commerce of the East Indies.
Indeed, the Dutch India Company was the most successful trading company in existence.
The way to the East Indies lay through seas carefully guarded by the Portuguese, so the Dutch India Company hired Henry Hudson, an English sailor, to search for a new route to India.
58.
Hudson's Voyage, 1609
He set forth in 1609 in the Half Moon, a staunch little ship.
At first he sailed northward, but ice soon blocked his way.
He then sailed southwestward to find a strait, which was said to lead through America north of Chesapeake Bay.
On August 3, 1609, he reached the entrance of what is now New York Harbor.
Soon, the half moon entered the mouth of the river that still bears her captain's name.
Up, up the river she sailed until finally she came to anchor near the present site of Albany.
The ship's boat sailed even farther north.
Everywhere the country was delightful.
The Iroquois came off to the ship in their canoes.
Hudson received them most kindly.
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