Month: October 2013

June 1611

Explorer Gazette

Nobody really knows what happened to Henry Hudson and his loyal crewman but one day this mystery will be solved.On Hudson’s first expedition in 1609 he traveled from the Netherlands with a crew of 20 men and a ship called the Half Moon,they kept traveling north so they could find the northwest passage but they couldn’t find it so they turned the ship around and traveled southwest toward America.He sailed past Newfoundland and down the eastern coast of America.Where New York is today,Hudson found a harbor and a river that followed into it.Thinking the river might be the Northwest Passage to the Pacific ocean,Hudson sailed up it.When the river became too shallow,he realized it was not the Passage.He turned around,while he sailed along this river,Hudson traded metal for furs from local indian tribes.The Dutch soon set up trading posts along this river,which was later named the Hudson River.In 1610 England hired Hudson to find the Northwest Passage Hudson sailed off to Northern Canada in a ship called the Discovery.He was sure he had found the Northwest Passage when he discovered a 450 mile long passageway.I think Hudson died of hunger because he was in Northern Canada in spring and they probably couldn’t find anything to eat.

I think every kid should not get a trophy,for one because sometimes kids don’t earn their trophy,for two people are not always going to be good at something.Like me because I am not always going to win at everything.I’m not very good at everything including basketball and soccer