Show STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By J John HIX E 4 ES S I q y X A u r Wi a F Fo Ts OFT Re Reh ES h T o ANo HEW CAME WITHIN loo j ME N WERE UNAWARE op pie Ef l JOHN S HNRY A 6 M NE AlS Al'S Il 1 J ON oH RY J. J aK V D MK H E R COMMUNICATIONS wirE TwiCE IN aH aHR K ONE 6 I TERMAS FR F r D 1936 R CAL ST D tT N a 1 tJ p 75 qI q I l k Td Ji S tM A WAS ww dl G M AI A I WoRD ll IN NIL a- a ao o CROSSROADS OF HISTORY Strange as it seems the paths ot of two tw great t explorers in n 1609 crossed neither within miles of each other in upp upper r New York yet state-yet other existed knew the man and colonizer in 1608 a ha had Samuel de Champlain a French navigator Of completed the founding of the important fur trading post at Quebec Quebe Algonquin and Huron expedition expedition expedition ex ex- he accompanied an The following summer against the on the shores of Lake Champlain which which he discovered About the same time an English navigator was sailing his ship Hudson to Albany Henry Hudson an and the Half Moon up the river his half Dutch half English crew of 20 were searching for a through route to China Originally they had sailed northward seeking the famous Northwest Passage but solid pack ice and open mutiny of his crew caused Hudson Hudso to seek a passage farther south by skirting Virginia Passing the narrows of ot upper New York bay which had dissuaded dissuade from entering the Hudson river in 1524 Hudson in seven seve days sailed up the river which now bears his name aided by the stron strong flood tide which can be felt miles from the ocean Copyright 1938 for The Telegram |