[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] NEWBURGH, N. Y. CHAPTER I. HUDSON IN THE MAHICANITUK — His INTERCOURSE WITH THE INDIANS — THEIR TRADITIONS CONCERNING HIS VISIT. AILING under the auspices of the Dutch West India Company, HENRY HUDSON, an intrepid Eng lish navigator, moored his vessel, the Half Moon, on the morning of September 3d, 1609, in the waters of the river which now bears his name. Lingering off Sandy Hook a week, he passed through the Narrows, and anchored in what is now Newark bay. On the I2th, he resumed his voyage, and slowly drifting with the tide, anchored over night, on the 1 3th, just above Yonkers, the great river stretching on before him to the north and giving to his ardent mind the hope that he had at last discovered the gateway to the Eastern seas. On the 1 4th, he passed Tappan and Haverstraw bays, and sailed through the majestic pass guarded by the frowning Don-derberg, and anchored at night near West Point, in the midst of the sublimest scenery of the mountains. On the morning of the 1 5th, he entered Newburgh bay, and reached Katskill; on the 1 6th, Athens; on the iyth, Castleton; on the 1 8th, Albany. Here he remained several days, sending an exploring boat as far as Waterford, and sadly learning that he had reached the head of navigation, and that the Eastern passage was yet an unsolved problem.