" master's mate went on land 2 with an old sociable, and the savage, a governor of the country, who carried him to his house and made him good cheere." " I sailed to the shore," he says, " in one of their canoes, with an old man who was chief of a These I tribe consisting of forty men and seventeen women. saw there in a house well constructed of oak bark, and circular in shape, so that it

had the appearance of being

Coleman's point is the monument to

this occurrence. It has been assumed on the authority of a quotation alleged by De Laet to have been made from a journal kept by Hudson, that the place of this visit was in latitude 42, 18', or in the vicinity of the present city of Hudson. (N. T. Hist. Soc.

Coll.y I,

300).

The journal kept by Juet

was not only the

official

record of the

voyage, but

is

with an

built

very precise in

its

statements as to who visited the shore in this, and in other instances. He does not give the latitude, but from the ship's log it would seem that the place was " six leagues higher," up the river than that fixed by

De Laet, and that it was Castleton.

at

Schodac or

37; BrodCollections of the Nenv Tork

O'Callaghan,

heady I, 31 } Historical Society, ad Ser.

i,

i,

326.

,

HIS10RT OF THE INDIAN

arched roof.

It contained a large quantity of