HENRY HUDSON

Eight and twenty canoes, full of men, women and children seemingly very glad of our coming …. The people of the country came aboard of us and making show of love, and gave us tobacco and Indian wheat, and departed for that night; but we durst not trust them.

The land is the finest for cultivation that I ever in my life set foot upon. Were our own industrious farmers to settle here, they would soon transform this wilderness into a Paradise where no man need ever go hungry….Never have I beheld such a rich and pleasant land.

… as fair a land as was ever trodden by the foot of man.

Eight and twenty canoes, full of men, women and children seemingly very glad of our coming …. The people of the country came aboard of us and making show of love, and gave us tobacco and Indian wheat, and departed for that night; but we durst not trust them.

These natives are a very good people; for when they saw that I would not remain, they supposed that I was afraid of their bows; and, taking their arrows, the broke them in pieces and threw them into the fire.

This land may be profitable to those that will adventure it.

A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.

I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them.

A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.

I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them.

These natives are a very good people; for when they saw that I would not remain, they supposed that I was afraid of their bows; and, taking their arrows, the broke them in pieces and threw them into the fire.

This land may be profitable to those that will adventure it.

Eight and twenty canoes, full of men, women and children seemingly very glad of our coming …. The people of the country came aboard of us and making show of love, and gave us tobacco and Indian wheat, and departed for that night; but we durst not trust them.

The land is the finest for cultivation that I ever in my life set foot upon. Were our own industrious farmers to settle here, they would soon transform this wilderness into a Paradise where no man need ever go hungry….Never have I beheld such a rich and pleasant land.

… as fair a land as was ever trodden by the foot of man.