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which he was had been named — the Dutch believing it 
to be a strait. On the 2nd July the boat was sent on 
shore with the mate, and brought back four dozen birds, 
half a boat-full of drift-wood, and a report of many rein- 
deer. But a careful examination showed that the Kostin 
Shar was only a deep bay and not a strait, to Hudson's 
great disappointment. On the 6th, all hope was abandoned 
of finding a passage by the north-east. 
Hudson then resolved to ascertain whether " Wil- 
loughby Land" was in the position in which it was placed 
on his chart, because if so he considered it would be a 
good place for walrus. So he shaped a westerly course. 
But no such land was seen, for in reality " Willoughby 
Land " was the very land of Novaya Zemlya which they 
had been visiting. On the 18th July the North Cape was 
again sighted ; and the Hopewell arrived at Gravesend 
on the 26th August, 1608. Hudson tells us that having 
found the routes by the north pole and the north-east 
impracticable, he had resolved to try the north-west the 
same year, taking the route of Lumley's Inlet and the 
H Furious Overfall" mentioned by Davis. But the season 
was far spent and he felt it to be his duty to his employers 
to return. 
Hudson's next voyage was in the service of the Dutch 
in 1609, when he discovered the river which bears his 
name, and it was not until 1610 that he was enabled to 
undertake the enterprise he had in his heart, an attempt 
by way of the "Furious Overfall" of John Davis. But 
that sad episode belongs to another part of the Arctic story. 
Of the great commercial as well as geographical 
importance of the two first voyages of Hudson there can 
be no question. They led the way to the famous Spits- 
bergen whale fishery. In 1609 the Muscovy Company 
sent Captain Jonas Poole to complete the work of Hudson, 
and he carefully examined the whole of the west coast 
of Spitsbergen, naming Bell Sound, Ice Sound, and 
several other positions. He wrote interesting journals 
which are given in Purchas, and he had a prosperous 
career before him. But unfortunately he was "miserably 
and basely murdered between Radcliffe and London," 
after his return in 161 1. 
The reports of Hudson and Poole made it manifest 
