of navigation, and that the Eastern passage was yet an unsolved

problem.

His return voyage began on the 2$d ; on the 25th,

HISTORT OF THE INDIAN

he anchored

in

ist of October ;

Newburgh bay; reached Stony point on the on the 4th, Sandy Hook, and sailed from thence

Newburgh Bay. to Europe, bearing with him the information which he had col lected, not the least of which in importance was that in relation

to the native lords

whom he had met on the banks of the river

he had discovered, and who then broke the silvery surface of its waters with their light canoes and awoke the echoes of its

mountain sides with their wild choruses, of whose power it was an emblem, on the waters of which, as they faded away in the north, was wafted their war shallops into tributaries that stretched on to the lakes and the great river of Canada, bearing

with them the prestige of savage supremacy.

Hudson first met the Indians near the Narrows, where they came on board his vessel " clothed in mantles of feathers and robes of fur, the women, clothed in hemp, red copper tobacco pipes, and other things of copper they did wear about their

necks;" of arms they brought none, their mission was peace; but he "durst not trust them." Suspicion breeds suspicion, leads to violence. and suspicion Sending an exploring boat up the river the next day, it was attacked, on its return to the ship,