Again the assailants manned another canoe and again the attack was repulsed by a cannon shot which destroyed their frail bark; and so the savages went their way mourning the loss of nine of their warriors.

The yacht then got down two leagues beyond that place, and anchored over night on the other side of the river in the bay near Hoboken.

Hard by his anchorage and upon that side of the river that is called Mannahatta, Hudson noticed that there was a cliff that looked of the color of white-green.

Here he lay wind-bound the next day, and saw no people to trouble him.

The following morning, just one month after his arrival at Sandy Hook, Hudson weighed anchor for the last time and coming out of the mouth of the great river, in the which he had run so far, he set all sail and steered off again into the main sea." It is very evident that Sir Henry Hudson was by no means a good disciplinarian.