The Story of Manhattan

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, no church-spires, no noisy hum of running trains, no smoke to blot out the blue sky. None of these things. But in their place were beautiful trees with spreading branches, stretches of sand-hills, and green patches of grass. In the branches of the trees there were birds o

island and looked with wonder at the boat, so different from any

called Holland, as Holland was the most important of its several states. But the Dutch owned other lands than these. They had islands in the Indian Ocean that were rich in spices of every sort, and the other European countries needed these s

nd Africa by way of the Cape of Good Hope. Besides being a long distance, it was a dangerous passage; for although from its name one might take the Cape of G

te possible that a passage lay through them which would make a much nearer and a much safer way to the East Indies than around the dread Cape of Good Hope. So the East India Company built the ship Half Moon and got an Englishman named Henry Hudson to t

kinned Indians on the island shore. But when the ship got as far as where Albany is now, the water had become shallow, and the river-banks were so

ur-bearing animals, and of what a vast fortune could be made if their skins could only be got to Holland, where furs wer

in the Highlan

he short passage to India. But in this last voyage, he only succeeded in finding a great stretch of water far to the north, that can be seen on any map as Hudson's Bay. His crew after a time grew angry when he wanted to continue his search. There was a mutiny on the ship, and Hudson and his son and seven of the sailors who were his friends were put into a small boat, set adrift in the bay to which he had given his name, and no tr

ver of the Mountains" they named Hudson's River. They even made believe that Hudson was a Dutchman-altho

air long, straight, and black. When they were fighting, they daubed their skins with colored muds-war paint the white men called it-and started out on the "war-path". They loved to hunt and fish, as well as to fight, and they fought and murdered as cruelly and with as little thought as they hunted the wild ani

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