Consequences of the System.
General Panic.




PETER STUYVESANT.




CHAPTER I.



DISCOVERY OF THE HUDSON RIVER.


The Discovery of America.--Colonies.--The Bay of New
York.--Description of the Bay.--Voyage of Sir Henry
Hudson.--Discovery of the Delaware.--The Natives.--The Boat
Attacked.--Ascending the Hudson.--Escape of the
Prisoners.--The Chiefs Intoxicated.--The Return.--The
Village at Castleton.--The Theft and its Punishment.--The
Return to England.


On the 12th of October, 1492, Christopher Columbus landed upon the
shores of San Salvador, one of the West India islands, and thus
revealed to astonished Europe a new world. Four years after this, in