Chap. VII. from the I, os James I, to the Revolution.
1607.Purchas,Vol. III. p.464.
Harris’r Col.P. I. p. 564.British Emp.in America,Vol. I. p.
Hudson'sVoyage ofDiscovery,towards theNorth-Pole
CHAP. VII.
Hudson’s Voyages of Discovery towards the North-Pole, in the Tears i 6 oj sand 1608, with other Transactions of those Tears .
reigning. But Captain Hudson was, atleast, the first Man who discovered itto the English, and who, indeed, firstwho ventured so near the Bottom ofthe Bay, as he did within a Degree ortwo. In this Voyage, he gave Namesto several Places, which they have re*tained to this Day; As Whale- Bay $Hackluyf s Headland ; Hudson's Touches 3&c.
Hudson’ j firs Voyage .
I N the Year 1607, Mr. Henry Hud-son set Sail, on the first of May,from Gravefend, with only oneShip, and, besides himself, ten Menand a Boy, on a Voyage of Discoverytowards the North-Pole, at the Chargeof certain Merchants of London. Theseven and twentieth of June, they de-scried Greenland. The Ice lay verythick along the Shoar, and, having afair Wind, they coasted it in a smoothSea, without Ground, at a Hundred•Fathom, four Leagues from the Shoar.
They reckoned themselves to be inseventy-eight Degrees, and not farfrom Vogel Hook. The fourteenth ofJuly they came into the Bay, whichhas since bore his Name, at the Mouthof which they had thirty Fathom Water,then 26,but further in had no Ground ataHundred Fathom, and therefore judgedit rather a Sound than a Bay. On theSouthern Side, lay three or four smallIslands or Rocks, The fifteenth, be-ing clear Weather, they saw the High „ ,
Land of Greenland, at twenty Leagues On the fifteenth ot rune f ay J j Mernmfrom them, to the North-East, and, by Journalists) one of our Company iooK- Jetheir Account, the Northern Part of ing over-board, saw a Mermaid, anthe Land, which they then saw, stretch- calling up. some of the Company to eeed into eighty one Degrees. The Au- her, one more came ups . and ihe wasthor of the British Empire in America then come close to the Sbip-side, loo "fays he discovered but to eighty Degrees, ing earnestly on the Men, Soon a orand three and twenty Minutes. The six- a Sea came and over-turned her- romteenth, having run towards the farthest Hie Navel upwards herBack and breatsPart of the Land they had discovered, were like a Woman’s, her Body as bigthey could discern more Land joyning as one of us, her Skin very white, andto the fame, stretching into eighty-two long black Hair hanging down behind:Degrees, and by the Bowing and Shew- In her going down, they saw her_Tan,
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Hudson’i second Voyage.
The twenty-second of April 1608. Hudson'i se.Mr. Henry Hudson set Sail from St. cons andKatherine's, with fifteen Persons in hisCompany, on a second Voyage for find- ing aPajfageing a Passage to the Eaft-lndies, by the t° thelndies,North-East. The Account we Lave nd
it in Purchas and Harris, being littlemore than ^’Seaman's Journal, whichwould be but tedious to the Readers, Ishall only. insert one Paragraph, towhich I leave them to give such Credit,as their different Opinions may leadthem to.
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ing of the Sky much farther. The Abnndance of the Ice to the Northward,which joined to the Land, hinderingthem from proceeding farther, theybore up the Helm, and, returning, ar-rived in the Thames, the fifteenth ofSeptember.
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like the Tail of a Porpoise, and speck*led like a Mackrel. The Mens Nameswho saw her were Thomas Hills andRobert Rayner. Hudson returned fromthis Voyage to Gravefend the fix andtwentieth of August.
A third Voyage , towards A ovaZembla, was attempted by Mr. Hudson,
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and Bay, which bear Hudson's Name, the Year following, in which, after ha-were first discovered by a Dane, who ving had a Sight of the North Cape ofgave them the Name of Chris iana, from Finmark , he sailed to Newfoundland*/1 ’ IV. King of Denmark, then Cape Cod and Virginia.
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