He thought that the boat would be kept in tow.

We then took leave of each other, with tears in our eyes, and the carpenter went into the boat, taking a musket and some powder and shot, an iron pot, a small quantity of meal, and other provisions.
"Hudson's son and six of the men were also put into the boat.

The sails were then hoisted and they stood eastward, with a fair wind, dragging the shallop from the stern.

In a few hours, being clear of the ice, they cut the rope by which the boat was towed, and soon after lost sight of her forever." The imagination recoils from following the victims thus abandoned, through the long days and nights of lingering death, from hunger and from cold.

To God alone has the fearful tragedy been revealed.
The glowing accounts which Sir Henry Hudson had given of the river he had discovered, and particularly of the rich furs there to be obtained, induced the merchants of Amsterdam in the year 1616 to fit out a trading expedition to that region.