of disaster, which could not be explained, aroused suspicion. _The Discovery_ was shunned by the fisher folk. Only by pawning the ship’s furniture could the crew obtain food, sailors and pilot to take them to Plymouth. Needless to say, the survivors were at once clapped in prison and Sir Thomas Button sent to hunt for Hudson; but Hudson had passed to his unknown grave leaving as a monument the two great pathways of traffic, which he found—Hudson River and the northern inland sea, which may yet prove the Baltic of America. DATA FOR HUDSON’S VOYAGES _Purchas’ Pilgrims_ contains the bulk of the data regarding Hudson’s voyages. The account of the first voyage is written by Hudson, himself, and by one of the company, John Playse, Playse presumably completing the log-book directly from Hudson’s journal. This is supplemented by facts taken from Hudson’s manuscripts (long since lost) now to be found in _Edge’s Discovery of the Muscovy Merchants_ (Purchas III, 464) and _Fotherby’s_ statement concerning Hudson’s journals (Purchas III, 730), the whole being concisely stated with ample proofs in the _Hakluyt Society’s_ 1860 publication on Hudson by Doctor Asher. The account of the second voyage is given by Hudson, himself. On the third voyage, the journal was kept by Juet, the mate. The story of the last voyage is told in _An Abstract of Hudson’s Journals_ down to August 1610; and in an account written by that Prickett who joined the mutineers, plainly to excuse his own conduct. Matter supplementary to the third voyage may be found outside _Purchas_ in such Dutch authorities as _Van Meteren_ and _De Laet_ and _Lambrechtsen_ and _Van der Donck_. Also in _Heckewelder_ and _Hessel Gerritz_. Every American historian who has dealt with the discovery of Hudson River draws his data from these sources. _Yates_, _Moulton_, _O’Callaghan_, _Brodhead_ are the earliest of the old American authorities. Supplementary matter concerning the fourth and last voyage is to be found in almost any account of Arctic voyaging in America, though nothing new is added to what is told by Hudson, himself, and by Prickett. Both the _New York Historical Society_ and the _Hakluyt Society_ of England have published excellent and complete transcripts of Hudson’s Voyages with translations of all foreign data bearing on them including the voyages of _Estevan Gomez_ and _Verrazano_ past New York harbor. For data bearing on the navigation of Hudson Straits, the two reports of the Canadian Government on two expeditions sent to ascertain the feasibility of such a route—are excellent; but not so good, not so detailed and beautifully unguarded as the sailing records kept by the old sea captains in the service of the Hudson’s Bay furriers. The Government reports are too guarded. Besides, the ships stayed only one season in the straits; but these old fur company captains sailed as often as forty times to the bay—eighty times in all through the straits; and I have availed myself