The details of this fight have been given in our chapter on the Indians, and need not be repeated here. It is noticeable that the only sanof Hudson's exploration of the river occurred along guinary incidentscoast. the Westchester Sailing away from the scene of this bloody conflict, the " Half Moon " passed out of the Narrows on the 4th of October, just one month and a day after its arrival in the Lower Bay, and proceeded direct to Europe, reaching the port of Dartmouth, England, on the Tth of November. The English authorities, reluctant to concede to Holland the right to Hudson's important discoveries, detained the vessel for several months on the strength of its commander's British owners nativity, and though it was ultimately released to its Dutch ds. As Hudson himself was not permitted to return to the Netherlan year next the patronage English under embarked he seen, have we upon another chimerical adventure after the northwesternthepassage, shores and ended his career in 1611 as a miserable castaway on somewhat a for destined was » Half-Moon " The Bav. of Hudson's like melancholy fate, being wrecked five years later in the East Indies. By the delimitations of its charter granted in 1602, the Dutch East s in India Company was excluded from all commercial operation n to corporatio that by taken were steps no y accordingl and America; the But Hudson. Henry by found develop the promising country alert and enterprising private traders of Holland were prompt in seeking to turn the new discoveries to profitable uses. While Hudson and his ship were held at Dartmouth, that is, during the winter of