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Henry Hudson: Half Moon
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Robert Juet, Henry Hudson's first mate on the Half Moon, kept a journal during Hudson's 3rd voyage. Juet’s journal of fell into the hands of Samuel Purchas (1575-1626), successor to Richard Hakluyt as the leading English publisher of voyages and travels. Purchas included it in his collection, Purchas, His Pilgrims, issued in 1625.
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In the preceding April, Hudson had once more sailed, under English auspices, in search of a northwest passage. In his ship the "Discoverie," of seventy tons, he penetrated the long straits and discovered the great bay that bears his name, at the southern extremity of which his men wintered. Again surrounded by a mutinous crew, he encountered hardships and sufferings from their criminal misconduct, which the artful inventions of the survivors skillfully concealed. Though he had divided, even with tears, his last bread with his men, yet on midsummer's day, 1611, while near the eastern coast, half way back to the straits, his ungrateful crew, thrusting him into a frail boat, with his son John and five sailors sick and blind with scurvy, cut him adrift, to perish in the great waste of waters, which, bearing his name, "is his tomb and his monument."
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Hudson was given a small, aging ship called the Half Moon. The ship would be difficult to handle in bad weather. The crew was made up of English and Dutch sailors. This was ... difficult because Hudson did not speak Dutch.
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On October 2, as the "Half Moon" neared Manhattan, some Native Americans became hostile and Hudson ordered guns to be fired at them. Several were killed, and the event was remembered 15 years later when the Dutch came to settle in Manhattan in 1624.
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