The record of the day's sailing is thus given in Juet's Journal : " In the morning we sailed up the river twelve leagues . . . and came to a strait between two points, . . . and it (the river) trended north by one league. . . . The river is a mile broad; there is very high land on both sides. Then Ave went up northwest a league and a half, deep w a t e r; t h e n northeast five miles; then n o r t h w e s t b y north two leagues ami a half. The land grew very high and mountainous." The " strait

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between two points," where they found the stream "a mile broad," was manifestly that portion of the river between Verplauck's and Stony Points. Continuing his voyage, Hudson sailed until he reached the site of Albany, where, finding the river no longer navigable, he was constrained to turn back, emerging from the Highlands into the Westchester section about the end of September. Here for the first time since leaving the Lower Bav blood was shed. The ship was becalmed 1 Wood, in his account (if the Discovery ami Settlement of Westchester County, in Scharf's History, accepts Brodhead's date; but Dr. Cole.

[istory of Yonkers in the same work ■viewing the statements in Juet's Jourdes upon the 14th of September.

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off Stony Point, in the k> strait " described by Juet, and the natives, animated solely by curiosity, came out in their canoes, some of them being received on board. The occupant of one of the canoes, which kept " hanging under the stern," was detected in pilfering from the cabin windows, having secreted " a pillow and two shirts and two bandaliers." Whereupon the " mate shot at him, and struck him on the breast, and killed him.*' The visitors now lied precipitately, those on board the " Half-Moon " jumping into the water.