nd killed two of them: whereupon the rest fled
into the woods. Yet they manned off another canoe with nine or ten
men, which came to meet us. So I shot at it also a falcon, and shot it
through, and killed one of them. Then our men with their muskets
killed three or foure more of them.[10] So they went their way; within
a mile after wee got downe two leagues beyond that place, and anchored
in a bay, cleere from all danger of them on the other side of the
river, where we saw a very good piece of ground: and hard by it there
was a cliffe, that looked of the colour of a white greene, as though
it were either copper or silver myne: and I thinke it to be one of
them, by the trees that grow upon it. For they be all burned, and the
other places are greene as grasse; it is on that side of the river
that is called Mannahata. There we saw no people to trouble us: and
rode quietly all night; but had much wind and raine....

We continued our course toward England, without seeing any land by the
way, all the rest of this moneth of October: and on the seventh day of
November, stilo novo, being Saturday, by the grace of God we safely
arrived in the range of Dartmouth, in Devonshire, in the yeere 1609.

[1] Juet, on a previous voyage with Hudson, had been Hudson's
mate, but on the voyage to New York Harbor he was his clerk and
kept a journal. From this document, which is included in the "Old
South Leaflets," the account here given is taken. Hudson himself
also kept a journal, but this has been lost. It is curious that
Juet, on the last voyage which Hudson made--the one to Hudson Bay,
in which he was sent adrift in a small boat and left to
perish--became the leader in the mutiny.

Before coming to America, Henry Hudson, an Englishman in Dutch
service, had sailed to the east coast of Greenland, visited
Spitzbergen, and attempted to find a northeast passage from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. It was his attempt to find a northwest
passage which led him, in September, 1609, into the harbor of New
York and up the river named after him. In the following year he
sailed again from Holland, seeking a northwest passage and thus
entered Hudson Bay. Here he spent the winter. In the following
June, when about to return home, the crew mutinied; Hudson, and
eight others, were seized, bound and set afloat in a small boat
that was never heard from again.

[2] Sandy Hook.