Henry Hudson Born: c. 1570 Died: 22-Jun-1611 Location of death: Hudson Bay Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Missing (lost at sea) Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Occupation: Explorer Nationality: England Executive summary: Sought a Northeast Passage English navigator and explorer.
Nothing is known of his personal
history excepting such as falls within
the period of the four voyages on
which his fame rests. The first of
these voyages in quest of new trade and a short route to China by way
of the North Pole, in accordance with
the suggestion of Robert Thorne (d.
1527), was made for the Muscovy
Company with ten men and a boy in
1607. Hudson first coasted the east side of Greenland, and being
prevented from proceeding
northwards by the great ice barrier
which stretches from there to
Spitzbergen, sailed along it until he
reached Newland, as Spitzbergen was then called, and followed its northern
coast to beyond 80° N. latitude. On
the homeward voyage he
accidentally discovered an island in
latitude 71° which he named
Hudson's Touches, and which has since been identified with Jan Mayen
Island. Molineux's chart, published
by Richard Hakluyt about 1600, was Hudson's blind guide in this voyage,
and the polar map of 1611 by
Pontanus illustrates well what he
attempted, and the valuable results
both negative and positive which he
reached. He investigated the trade prospects at Bear Island, and
recommended his patrons to seek
higher game in Newland; hence he
may be called the father of the
English whale-fisheries at Spitzbergen. Next year Hudson was again sent by
the Muscovy Company to open a
passage to China, this time by the
northeast route between Spitzbergen
and Novaya Zemlya, which had been
attempted by his predecessors and especially by the Dutch navigator Willem Barents. This voyage lasted from the 22nd of April to the 26th of
August 1608. He raked the Barents
Sea in vain between 75° 30' N.W. and
71° 15' S.E. for an opening through
the ice, and on the 6th of July, "voide
of hope of a north-east passage (except by the Waygats, for which I
was not fitted to trie or prove)", he
resolved to sail to the northwest, and
if time and means permitted to run a
hundred leagues up Lumley's Inlet
(Frobisher Strait) or Davis's "overfall" (Hudson Strait). But his
voyage being delayed by contrary
winds he was finally compelled to
return without accomplishing his
wish. The failure of this second
attempt satisfied the Muscovy Company, which from that point
directed all its energies to the
profitable Spitzbergen trade. Towards the end of 1608 Hudson
"had a call" to Amsterdam, where he
saw the celebrated cosmographer the
Rev. Peter Plancius and the
cartographer Hondius, and after
some delay, due to the rivalry which was exhibited in the attempt to
secure his services, he undertook for
the Dutch East India Company his
important third voyage to find a
passage to China either by the
northeast or northwest route. With a mixed crew of eighteen or twenty
men he left the Texel in the "Half-
Moon" on the 6th of April, and by
the 5th of May was in the Barents
Sea, and soon afterwards among the
ice near Novaya Zemlya, where he had been the year before. Some of
his men becoming disheartened and
mutinous (it is now supposed that he
had arrived two or three months too
early), he lost hope of effecting
anything by that route, and submitted to his men, as alternative
proposals, either to go to Lumley's
Inlet and follow up Waymouth's
light, or to make for North Virginia
and seek the passage in about 40°
latitude, according to the letter and map sent him by his friend Captain John Smith. The latter plan was adopted, and on the 14th of May
Hudson set his face towards the
Chesapeake and China. He touched
at Stromo in the Faroe Islands for
water, and on the 15th of June off
Newfoundland the "Half-Moon" "spent overboard her foremast." This
accident compelled him to put into
the Kennebec river, where a mast was
procured, and some communication
and an unnecessary encounter with
the Indians took place. Sailing again on the 26th of July, he began on the
28th of August the survey where
Smith left off, at 37° 36' according
to his map, and coasted northwards.
On the 3rd of September, in 40° 30',
he entered the fine bay of New York, and after having gone 150 miles up
the river which now bears his name
to near the position of the present
Albany, treating with the Indians,
surveying the country, and trying
the stream above tide-water, he became satisfied that this course did
not lead to the South Sea or China, a
conclusion in harmony with that of Samuel de Champlain, who the same summer had been making his way
south through Lake Champlain and
Lake St. Sacrement (now Lake
George). The two explorers by
opposite routes approached within 20
leagues of each other. On the 4th of October the "Half-Moon" weighed for
the Texel, and on the 7th of
November arrived at Dartmouth,
where she was seized and detained by
the English government, Hudson and
the other Englishmen of the ship being commanded not to leave
England, but rather to serve their
own country. The voyage had fallen
short of Hudson's expectations, but it
served many purposes perhaps as
important to the world. Among other results it exploded Hakluyt's myth,
which from the publication of Lok's
map in 1582 to the 2nd charter of
Virginia in May 1609 he had lost no
opportunity of promulgating, that
near 40° latitude there was a narrow isthmus, formed by the sea of
Verrazano, like that of Tehuantepec
or Panama. Hudson's confidence in the existence
of a Northwest Passage had not been
diminished by his three failures, and
a new company was formed to
support him in a fourth attempt, the
principal promoters being Sir Thomas Smith (or Smythe), Sir Dudley Digges
and John (afterwards Sir John)
Wolstenholme. He determined this
time to carry out his old plan of
searching for a passage up Davis's
"overfall" -- so-called in allusion to the overfall of the tide which Davis had
observed rushing through the strait.
Hudson sailed from London in the
little ship "Discovery" of 55 tons, on
the 17th of April 1610, and entered
the strait which now bears his name about the middle of June. Sailing
steadily westward he entered Hudson
Bay on the 3rd of August, and
passing southward spent the next
three months examining the eastern
shore of the bay. On the 1st of November the "Discovery" went into
winter quarters in the S.W. corner of
James Bay, being frozen in a few
days later, and during the long
winter months which were passed
there only a scanty supply of game was secured to eke out the ship's
provisions. Discontent became rife,
and on the ship breaking out of the
ice in the spring Hudson had a violent
quarrel with a dissolute young fellow
named Henry Greene, whom he had befriended by taking him on board,
and who now retaliated by inciting
the discontented part of the crew to
put Hudson and eight others
(including the sick men) out of the
ship. This happened on the 22nd of June 1611. Robert Bylot was elected
master and brought the ship back to
England. During the voyage home
Greene and several others were killed
in a fight with the Eskimo, while
others again died of starvation, and the feeble remnant which reached
England in September were thrown
into prison. No more tidings were ever
received of the deserted men. Although it is certain that the four
great geographical landmarks which
today serve to keep Hudson's
memory alive, namely the Hudson
Bay, Strait, Territory and River, had
repeatedly been visited and even drawn on maps and charts before he
set out on his voyages, yet he
deserves to take a very high rank
among northern navigators for the
mere extent of his discoveries and the
success with which he pushed them beyond the limits of his predecessors.
The rich fisheries of Spitzbergen and
the fur industry of the Hudson Bay
Territory were the immediate fruit of
his labors.
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