Child Life in the Colonies - New Amsterdam #264634

Henry Hudson, or as the Dutch called him, Hendrick Hudson, commanded a small vessel. Called the half-moon. He had a crew of twenty Dutchmen and Englishmen. At first Hudson steered the half-moon in a northerly direction. But the intense cold and huge icebergs of the Arctic Ocean terrified his men, so he turned his vessel about and sailed towards the west.