ds (Moluccas), in the Malay Archipelago. Though failing in
this purpose, he reached a higher latitude than had before been
attained by any navigator.

His next venture (1608), for the same company, was for "finding
a passage to the East Indies by the northeast," but he failed
to pass in that direction beyond Nova Zembla, and returned to
England. These two failures discouraged the Muscovy Company,
but did not daunt Henry Hudson. Again he determined to sail the
northern seas, and the story of his third great voyage and its
results is here given to the reader.

Hudson, whose mind was completely bent upon making the discovery which
he had undertaken, now sought employment from the Dutch East India
Company. The fame of his adventures had already reached Holland, and he
had received from the Dutch the appellations of the bold Englishman, the
expert pilot, the famous navigator. The company were generally in favor
of accepting the offer of his services, though the scheme was strongly
opposed by Balthazar Moucheron, one of their number, who had some
acquaintance with the arctic seas. They accordingly gave him the command
of a small vessel, named the Half Moon, with a crew of twenty men, Dutch
and English, among whom was Robert Juet, who had accompanied him as mate
on his second voyage. The journal of the present voyage, which is
published in _Purchas' Pilgrims_, was written by Juet.

He sailed from Amsterdam March 25, 1609, and doubled the North Cape in
about a month. His object was to pass through the Vaygats, or perhaps to
the north of Nova Zembla, and thus reach China by the northeast passage.
But after contending for more than a fortnight with head winds,
continual fogs, and ice, and finding it impossible to reach even the
coast of Nova Zembla, he determined to abandon this plan, and endeavor
to discover a passage by the northwest. He accordingly directed his
course westerly, doubled the North Cape again, and in a few days saw a
part of the western coast of Norway, in the latitude of 68 deg.. From this
point he sailed for the Faroe Islands, where he arrived about the end of
May.

Having replenished his water-casks at one of these islands he again
hoisted sail, and steered southwest, in the hope of making Buss Island,
which had been discovered by Sir Martin Frobisher, in 1578, as he wished
to ascertain if it was correctly laid down on the chart. As he did not
succeed in findi