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History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River — Passage 1 (part 2)

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[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] His return voyage began on the 2$d; on the 25th, 8 HISTORT OF THE INDIAN he anchored in Newburgh bay; reached Stony point on the ist of October; 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