Book/Printed Material Sailing directions of Henry Hudson : prepared for his use in 1608, from the old Danish of Ivar Bardsen. With an introduction and notes ; also a dissertation on the discovery of the Hudson river.
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- Date: 1869
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Image 13 of Sailing directions of Henry Hudson : prepared for his use in 1608, from … V .y y 6/ SAILING DIRECTIONS HENRY HUDSON, PREPARED FOR HIS USE IN 1608, FROM THE a^lXf Hanfisli of l^iiuv BavXfntn* AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES: A DISSERTATION ON THE DISCOVERY OF THE…
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- Date: 1869
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Image 15 of Sailing directions of Henry Hudson : prepared for his use in 1608, from … $nsrrii)ct» THE HON. CHAELES P. DALY, THE JUST JUDGE ACCOMPLISHED GEOGRAPHER.
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Image 17 of Sailing directions of Henry Hudson : prepared for his use in 1608, from … PREFACE. It was the author s intention at the outset to print the treatise of Ivar Bardsen with a few explanatory notes; yet the interest proved such as to induce the author…
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Image 18 of Sailing directions of Henry Hudson : prepared for his use in 1608, from … vi PREFACE. quainted with Bardsen s treatise, when in Frisland, the Faroesland or Faroe, ivhence the original of Henry Hud- son s own version came about the year 1490. At all events,…
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Image 19 of Sailing directions of Henry Hudson : prepared for his use in 1608, from … CONTENTS. I. Preface. 11, Introduction. III. Treatise op Ivar Bardsen, IV. Revised Translation of the Treatise OF IvAR Bardsen. V. Index.
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Image 21 of Sailing directions of Henry Hudson : prepared for his use in 1608, from … SAILING DIRECTIONS HENRY HUDSON. INTEODUCTION. Greenland was first colonized by Eric the Red, a man banished from Iceland for the crime of mur- der/ He sailed from Iceland with a company of…
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Image 22 of Sailing directions of Henry Hudson : prepared for his use in 1608, from … 10 SAILING DIRECTIONS that the same summer he explored the western desert, and gave names to many places. The next winter he spent on an island called Rafns- gnipa, returning the third…
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Image 23 of Sailing directions of Henry Hudson : prepared for his use in 1608, from … OF HENRY HUDSON. H In order to settle the question still more effectu- ally, an expedition was dispatched by the king of Denmark in the year 1828, with instructions to proceed to…
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Image 24 of Sailing directions of Henry Hudson : prepared for his use in 1608, from … 12 SAILING DIRECTIONS Here and there he discovered a handful of natives, who subsisted on the products of the land and sea yet it was clear from what he saw that no…
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Image 25 of Sailing directions of Henry Hudson : prepared for his use in 1608, from … OF HENRY HUDSON. I3 rally correct in his statements, nevertheless falls into some errors. This, however, is not of much consequence, for the reason that still earlier writers afford the means of…
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- Date: 1869
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Image 26 of Sailing directions of Henry Hudson : prepared for his use in 1608, from … 14 SAILING DIRECTIONS bus. The substance of it also exists in the ancient Landanartia-holx^ or Dooms-day book of Iceland. Second, as it comes in the version of Purchas, with all its changes,…
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Image 27 of Sailing directions of Henry Hudson : prepared for his use in 1608, from … OF HENRY HUDSON. 15 Columl)ian age by the Northmen in their voyages from Norway and Iceland to the Greenland coast. Of Henry Hudson little is known. He appears for a brief time,…
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Image 28 of Sailing directions of Henry Hudson : prepared for his use in 1608, from … 16 SAILING DIRECTIONS East India Company, was made in 1609. He first sailed north-east, where he was repulsed by the ice near Nova Zembla, and then sailed west, reaching our own shores,…
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Image 29 of Sailing directions of Henry Hudson : prepared for his use in 1608, from … OF HENRY HUDSON. 17 to infer that they were consulted, from the fact that they were translated for his special benefit. Under the circumstances, he would not have overlooked any suggestions, though…
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Image 30 of Sailing directions of Henry Hudson : prepared for his use in 1608, from … 18 SAILING DIRECTIONS Starting from Amsterdam March 25, 1609, he sailed first for Nova Zembhi in search of an open- ing to the Flowery Kingdom. Here the unbroken ice barriers opposing his…
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Image 31 of Sailing directions of Henry Hudson : prepared for his use in 1608, from … OF HENRY HUDSON. 19 trees are beginning to glow with autumnal splendor, while the sky, filled with lazily floating clouds, is already dreaming of the evening hour. The sa- vages flock to…
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- Date: 1869
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Image 32 of Sailing directions of Henry Hudson : prepared for his use in 1608, from … 20 SAILING DIRECTIONS appear to have understood its use. But let us glance also at the case of others. It has often been asked if Columbus gained any information from the Icelanders…
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- Date: 1869
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Image 33 of Sailing directions of Henry Hudson : prepared for his use in 1608, from … OF HENEY HUDSON. 21 and when he actually went forth, reaching the American continent fourteen months before it was seen by Columbus, he took substantially the course of the old Northmen. In…
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Image 34 of Sailing directions of Henry Hudson : prepared for his use in 1608, from … 22 SAILING DIRECTIONS not have appeared so particularly meritorious while, if it had been, it is not so certain that it would gain mention. Again, it is said that his attempt to…
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- Date: 1869
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Image 35 of Sailing directions of Henry Hudson : prepared for his use in 1608, from … OP HENRY HUDSON. 23 ifnaicoe Augmentmn, published in 1603, after speak- ing of the voyage of the Zeni brothers to Greenland, tells us that the second person to rediscover that country was…
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- Date: 1869
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Image 36 of Sailing directions of Henry Hudson : prepared for his use in 1608, from … 24 SAILING DIRECTIONS cated, have been Labrador. I am, however, sur- prised to find that Gomara [chap, xxxvii] who pub- lished his Historla de las Indias atSaragossa in 1553, was cognizant even…
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- Date: 1869
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Image 37 of Sailing directions of Henry Hudson : prepared for his use in 1608, from … OF HENRY HUDSON. or. :ib Bacaloas. Kiinstiiiann also calls attention to the subject in his work, Die Entdeckimg Amerihas. He says (p 45) On historical grounds, however, is a voyage hitherto too…
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- Date: 1869
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Image 38 of Sailing directions of Henry Hudson : prepared for his use in 1608, from … 26 SAILING DIRECTIONS centuries prior to his time the communication was maintained with more or less regularity. The last of the seventeen bishops of Greenland, An- dreas, was sent over in the…
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- Date: 1869
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Image 39 of Sailing directions of Henry Hudson : prepared for his use in 1608, from … OF HENRY HUDSON. 27 minds for when in the year 1513, King Christ- ian II ascended his throne, he bonnd himself with a solemn vow to reopen the ancient com- munication with…
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- Date: 1869
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Image 40 of Sailing directions of Henry Hudson : prepared for his use in 1608, from … 28 SAILING DIRECTIONS chronicles of the day} It may, therefore, yet be demonstrated to the satisfaction of historical stu- dents that the old sailing directions of Bardsen were known by a few…
- Contributor: Decosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)
- Date: 1869
About this Item
Title
- Sailing directions of Henry Hudson : prepared for his use in 1608, from the old Danish of Ivar Bardsen. With an introduction and notes ; also a dissertation on the discovery of the Hudson river.
Names
- DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904, ed.
Created / Published
- Albany : J. Munsell, 1869.
Headings
- - America--Discovery and exploration
- - Greenland
- - Hudson, Henry,---1611
- - Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)--History
Notes
- - Also available in digital form.
- - LAC snh 2019-04-26 update (1 card)
Medium
- vi p.l., [9]-102 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- E129.H8 D2
Library of Congress Control Number
- 03026031
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