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Hudson (HENRY an English navigator)

HENRY, an English navigator; born in England. He entered the service of Holland. After making three voyages to find a N. E. or N. W. passage to China, in the second of which he discovered the Hudson river, he set sail a fourth time, April 17, 1610, in a bark named the "Discovery," and proceeding W., reached in lat. 60° N. the strait bearing his name. Through this he advanced along the coast of Labrador, till it issued into the vast bay which is also called after him. Here, with his son and seven infirm sailors, he was turned adrift by a mutinous crew, and was no more heard of.