The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson

My Final Voyage

Citations:

• Slides
• http://www.biography.com/people/henry-hudson-9346049?page=2
• http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/henry-hudson.htm
• http://www.3rd1000.com/history3/explorers/hudson/hudson5.htm?3e3ea140
• Pictures
• http://www.ianchadwick.com/hudson/images/voyage04.jpg
• http://www.arthursclipart.org/science/science/iceberg.gif
• http://www.paradoxplace.com/Insights/Exploration/Images/Astrolabe-BAR500.jpg
• http://www.maryrose.org/lcity/pilot/images/tboard.jpg
• http://www.ianchadwick.com/hudson/images/discovery.jpg
• http://europeanexplorers.weebly.com/uploads/1/7/3/6/1736430/6011221.jpg

My End

The betrayal by my crew

by Henry Hudson

I thought the tensions were high when the food was low and I was the only one willing to continue our trip. I never thought it would escalate to this though. They have left my son and I in a lifeboat and pushed us out to sea. I am afraid that this will be my last entry. We had just left Northern America from our newly discovered bay (Hudson Bay? I wish) when my best friend of all people decided that the best way to fix our problems was to get rid of me. So I woke up one morning to the crew forcing my son and I into our own boat and leaving us to die. If anything, I can say I have claimed part of the vast sea and the land around it for my country, England.

Our Route

How we got there

We have departed. I have already started using

our navigational tools; it is not that we are lost, we are just... getting used to the waters. I have packed my astrolabe, compass, almanacs, traverse board, nocturnals, and cross staff. I use some of these to measure the angle between objects above the ocean, like stars, with the horizon. This will enable me to calculate the ship's position at sea. Since departing we have sailed past the southern tip of Greenland. Personally, I think they should name it the Hudson Strait.

Astrolabe

traverse board

Preparation

Starting the Journey

Along the Way

The things we encountered

This is my fourth voyage out into these waters. I got funds from Dutch East India Company. The year is 1609. Our goal is to find another route to Asia. I plan to use my ship Discovery for this voyage. We will depart in April of 1610. I will take my son John and my dear friend Robert Juet along with my loyal crew. I have packed the ship with supplies according to the expected conditions. Bread, beer, fish and salted meat is what I have packed to eat along with my own personal storage of wine and fresh livestock (but don't tell my crew).

Problems

Along the way we have visited many port cities none of the crew had ever been to, like ones in Scotland, Greenland and Iceland. Our personal favorite stop was in Iceland. We stopped in the bay we called "English Louise." We had a great time, the crew bathed in hot springs, ate well, shot lots of fowl and caught fish. We stayed there until the end of the month, we did not want to leave such a rich culture behind. Then we continued on to what my map calls"James Bay" only to hit a dead end.

Struggles as we arrived

This trip is not ideal. I wouldn't recommend going out in the winter to a northern territory (if that even originally sounded appealing). We ran out of most supplies and had to endure a harsh winter in North America (not Asia like I wanted). If it means anything the crew says we are the first people to make it through a "Canadian Arctic". On our way we also had to sail through ice covered waters, with many an iceberg. All of these things were causing quite the stir among the crew. Hopefully we can make it home! And with these Native Americans in the way who knows if we will. They are a very violent people, the crew just wants to go home.