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De Veer, too, had committed himself to the statement 

 that there were no deer in the country, but here were 

 Hudson's men frequently coming upon their traces, and 

 on the 2nd of July reporting that they had seen "a 

 herd of white deer, ten in a company," bringing on 

 board with them a white lock of deer's hair in proof 

 thereof. 



On his return Hudson left the service of the Mus- 

 covy Company. He went to Holland, and, early in 

 April, 1609, was sent out by the Amsterdam Chamber 

 of the Dutch East India Company. On the 5th of 

 May he rounded the North Cape, making for Novaya 

 Zemlya, and a few days afterwards reached the ice. 

 Here, according to Dutch accounts, his men mutinied, 

 but what happened during the trouble is not recorded. 

 Whether it was really owing to a mutiny, or, as is by 

 no means improbable, to secret instructions received at 

 his departure, Hudson, on the 14th, made sail for the 

 North Cape, passed it on the 19th, when he observed a 

 spot on the sun, and then went off westwards to New- 

 foundland, making direct apparently for the mouth of 

 the river now bearing his name, which was discovered 

 by Verrazano in March, 1524, and surveyed by Gomez 

 in the following year, and was at the time of Hudson's 

 visit British territory. 



The reason for this astonishing change of route was, 

 perhaps, that on some of the charts of the period, as on 

 Michael Lock's planisphere, this river, the Rio de Gamas 

 or Rio Grande of the Spaniards, was made to com- 

 municate with what seems to be intended for Lake 

 Ontario, and this with the other lakes to the westward 

 was widened out into the waterway to the South Sea. 



