Show MYSTERIES I 1 still nero ml and abroad ass what became of hendrik hudson 0 OP F NO one who has figured art prominently ml in tile the early hatry of america Is so tittle little known k non as of lien drik hudson whose name Is perpetuated in that of the great ri ver of new york state hudsons Hud sons bay ay and numerous other sections of the north easl where was he born no one knows vila or where or how did he dle all these are mi merles ertes on which no existing emitting records ils appear iiii iwar to throw the slightest light while the dual disposition ol of his body Is also one of the riddles of the golden age of discovery historians first farst present the great explorer as standing un w the quarter d eck deck of a small ship which whick be thought he was guiding toward the north pule pole and the final curtain Is ii drawn draft a over 01 er his career at the moment that he took to a swa small i I 1 boat in hudsons Hud Had sons bay with eight of his sailors all ot of whom who m were completely lost to the world fro from in that time on hudson hashed flashed before the public suddenly remained a prominent if gure tor for only tour four years vears and then disappeared as it the sea had sw allowed weil him up which it quite possibly did no one knows his use age at the time he made his discoveries save for the rather vague statement that he was born somewhere in england during the sixteenth century while hl his a father and grandfather are supposed to have ha e been london me merchants rc hunts interested in the madory company it was on ap april ril 10 ima that hudson ac accompanied compan I 1 ed by his sixteen alsteen year old son jolin john and ten sailors left england on the comp companas compania com pania anys little 60 00 ton ship the hopewell ills object was to discover the north pole andio and to sill across it to china and india believing that he could reach the orient through a sea passage somewhere in the frozen north frustrated by a solid wall nail of tee ice hudson returned from his first voyage a disappointed man and later made a second attempt with the same result on april 4 the explorer sailed from amsterdam on oa the halfmoon half moon and entered delaware bay finding this was not the transcontinental passage dasan an ge he was seeking he sailed northward along the coast and on en september I 1 2 1009 reached lower new york bay bar landing at what Is now coney island from there he proceeded to manhattan island and sailed up the river which bears his name stilt still hoping that this might be the long sought tor for strait which would lead elin to the far east cast the halfmoon half moon V went eat as far as the river nver was navigable and then heartsick with disappointment hudson again returned to holland but the discoverer was not yet jet satisfied and in 1610 lie he set suit sail once more toe for the new world steering his course tarther aether north until he came into the wide waters of what Is now known as hudsons Hud sons bay at clr arst qt he mistook this bay for the polar sea but learning his mistake he continued to push onward in his search tor for the northwest passage finally his crew mutinied mutinies muti nied and because the food supply commented commenced to run low they the decided to return home so on june 25 loll 1011 hudson his son and seven of the weakest of the sailors were set adrift in an open boat this was the last that was ever heard of the explorer or any of his party parry an expedition was waa rent pent out from england some time afterward to search for them but no tram trace of 0 the boat or its occupants could be found nor hit has anyone anone ever been able to learn the fate of the nine sailors possibly they perished la in the waters of the bay which bears hud sons alias name possibly they reached land safely and were attacked by hostile indians or it may have been that they starved to death in their boat or on oa land for many years rumors about the fate atthe of ohp little band were plentiful and the quaintest quain test of these reports has been told in legend form by washing tun irving while other unverified I 1 stories tell of a settlement of white i men tit in the north country and of its gradual merging with native tribes not long ago it was reported report pd that a document had been ered d union among the archives of the hudsons Hud sons bay company which couta contained ined a confession of 0 one oie of the mutineers muti anil and the state ment that hudson had been murdered and not cast adrift but this was later denied by the officials of tile company though gh it la Is generally supposed that hudson and his bis followers either caci led of starvation or were killed by the indians there la Is absolutely no indication of what befell the castaways casta ways after the discovery left them to their fate in an open boat in hudsons Hud flud sons bay ca by 1 the th ghetler wr tea I 1 |