Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Notes to Introduction
- DIVERS VOYAGES AND NORTHERNE DISCOVERIES
- Divers voyages and northerne discoveries of that worthy discoverer Henry Hudson, from Purchas' Pilgrims, vol. iii, pp. 567-610
- A larger Discourse of the same Voyage and the success thereof, written by Abacuk Pricket
- A note found in the deske of Thomas Wydowse, student of mathematics, one of them who was put into the shallop
- Purchas his Pilgrimage, folio, London, 1626, p. 817. VI. Of Hudson's discoveries and death
- Hudson's first voyage (1607), from Edge's brief discoverie of the Muscovia merchants
- Captain Fotherby's statement concerning Hudson's Journal of his first voyage
- Hudson's third voyage (1609) from Van Meteren's Historie der Nederlanden. Folio, Hague, 1614, fol. 629a
- Extracts relating to Hudson's third voyage (1609), from John de Laet's Nieuwe Werelt, fol., Amsterdam, 1625, 1630-1
- Extracts containing some original information about Hudson's third voyage, from Mr. Lambrechtsen van Ritthem's ‘History of New Netherland’
- Extracts concerning Hudson's third voyage (1609), from Adrian van der Donck's ‘Beschryvinge van Nieuw Nederlandt,’ 4to., Amsterdam, 1655, 1656
- American traditions concerning the third voyage (1609)
- An Extract from Captain Luke Foxe's description of Hudson's fourth voyage (North-West Fox) p. 70
- Hessel Gerritz's various accounts of Hudson's two last voyages, from the Latin and Dutch edition of the ‘Descriptio et Delineatio Geographica detectionis Freti ab H. Hudsono inventi.’ Amst., 1612, 1613: I. Hudson's fourth voyage. A summary printed on the back of the chart. An account of the voyage and new found strait of Mr. Hudson
- APPENDIX
- Voyage of John de Verazzano along the coast of North America from Carolina to Newfoundland (containing the first discovery of Hudson's river) A.D. 1524. Translated from the original Italian, by Joseph G. Cogswell, Esq. Preliminary notice by the translator
- Voyage of Captain John de Verazzano. Letter to His Most Serene Majesty the King of France
- Writings of William Barentz (Barentson) in Hudson's possession (Purchas his Pilgrims, vol. iii, pp. 518-620)
- Van der Donck's observations about the Wampum or bead money of the Indians, mentioned by Hudson.
- Title and Prolegomena to the first edition of the ‘Detectio Freti’
- Title and Prolegomena to the second edition of the ‘Detectio Freti’
- A letter from President Jeannin to Henry IV of France, containing an account of his Negociation with Henry Hudson, through Isaac Le Maire
- Extracts concerning a shipbook found at Amsterdam, by John Romeyn Brodhead, Esq.
- Extracts from a charter granted to the Company of the Merchants Discoverers of the North-West Passage. Apud Bledsoe, July 26th, 1612
- Two Extracts from Rafn's ‘Antiquitates Americanæ’
- Other names of Hudson's Strait: Hudson's Bay, Hudson's Touches, Hudson's Point, and Hudson's River
- Bibliographical List, containing the books, maps, etc., etc., mentioned in the present work
- Index
- Plate section
Voyage of Captain John de Verazzano. Letter to His Most Serene Majesty the King of France
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Notes to Introduction
- DIVERS VOYAGES AND NORTHERNE DISCOVERIES
- Divers voyages and northerne discoveries of that worthy discoverer Henry Hudson, from Purchas' Pilgrims, vol. iii, pp. 567-610
- A larger Discourse of the same Voyage and the success thereof, written by Abacuk Pricket
- A note found in the deske of Thomas Wydowse, student of mathematics, one of them who was put into the shallop
- Purchas his Pilgrimage, folio, London, 1626, p. 817. VI. Of Hudson's discoveries and death
- Hudson's first voyage (1607), from Edge's brief discoverie of the Muscovia merchants
- Captain Fotherby's statement concerning Hudson's Journal of his first voyage
- Hudson's third voyage (1609) from Van Meteren's Historie der Nederlanden. Folio, Hague, 1614, fol. 629a
- Extracts relating to Hudson's third voyage (1609), from John de Laet's Nieuwe Werelt, fol., Amsterdam, 1625, 1630-1
- Extracts containing some original information about Hudson's third voyage, from Mr. Lambrechtsen van Ritthem's ‘History of New Netherland’
- Extracts concerning Hudson's third voyage (1609), from Adrian van der Donck's ‘Beschryvinge van Nieuw Nederlandt,’ 4to., Amsterdam, 1655, 1656
- American traditions concerning the third voyage (1609)
- An Extract from Captain Luke Foxe's description of Hudson's fourth voyage (North-West Fox) p. 70
- Hessel Gerritz's various accounts of Hudson's two last voyages, from the Latin and Dutch edition of the ‘Descriptio et Delineatio Geographica detectionis Freti ab H. Hudsono inventi.’ Amst., 1612, 1613: I. Hudson's fourth voyage. A summary printed on the back of the chart. An account of the voyage and new found strait of Mr. Hudson
- APPENDIX
- Voyage of John de Verazzano along the coast of North America from Carolina to Newfoundland (containing the first discovery of Hudson's river) A.D. 1524. Translated from the original Italian, by Joseph G. Cogswell, Esq. Preliminary notice by the translator
- Voyage of Captain John de Verazzano. Letter to His Most Serene Majesty the King of France
- Writings of William Barentz (Barentson) in Hudson's possession (Purchas his Pilgrims, vol. iii, pp. 518-620)
- Van der Donck's observations about the Wampum or bead money of the Indians, mentioned by Hudson.
- Title and Prolegomena to the first edition of the ‘Detectio Freti’
- Title and Prolegomena to the second edition of the ‘Detectio Freti’
- A letter from President Jeannin to Henry IV of France, containing an account of his Negociation with Henry Hudson, through Isaac Le Maire
- Extracts concerning a shipbook found at Amsterdam, by John Romeyn Brodhead, Esq.
- Extracts from a charter granted to the Company of the Merchants Discoverers of the North-West Passage. Apud Bledsoe, July 26th, 1612
- Two Extracts from Rafn's ‘Antiquitates Americanæ’
- Other names of Hudson's Strait: Hudson's Bay, Hudson's Touches, Hudson's Point, and Hudson's River
- Bibliographical List, containing the books, maps, etc., etc., mentioned in the present work
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
Since the tempests which we encountered on the northern coasts, I have not written to your most Serene and Christian Majesty concerning the four ships sent out by your orders on the ocean to discover new lands, because I thought you must have been before apprized of all that had happened to us; that we had been compelled, by the impetuous violence of the winds, to put into Brittany in distress, with only the two ships Normandy and Dolphin; and that, after having repaired these ships, we made a cruise in them, well armed, along the coast of Spain, as your Majesty must have heard; and also of our new plan of continuing our begun voyage with the Dolphin alone. From this voyage being now returned, I proceed to give your Majesty an account of our discoveries.
On the 17th of last January we set sail from a desolate rock near the island of Madeira, belonging to his most Serene Majesty the King of Portugal, with fifty men; having provisions sufficient for eight months, arms, and other warlike munition and naval stores. Sailing westward with a light and pleasant easterly breeze, in twenty-five days we ran eight hundred leagues.
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- Henry Hudson the NavigatorThe Original Documents in which his Career is Recorded, pp. 199 - 228Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1860