After telling about the fight, Juet adds:  “Within a while after wee got downe two leagues beyond that place and anchored in a bay [north of Hoboken], cleere from all danger of them on the other side of the river, where we saw a very good piece of ground [for anchorage].  And hard by it there was a cliffe [Wiehawken] that looked of the colour of a white greene, as though it were either copper or silver myne.  And I thinke it to be one of them, by the trees that grow upon it.  For they be all burned, and the other places are greene as grasse.  It is on that side of the river that is called Manna-hata.  There we saw no people to trouble us, and rode quietly all night, but had much wind and raine.”

In that entry the name Manna-hata was written for the first time, and was applied, not to our island but to the opposite Jersey shore.  The explanation of Juet’s record seems to be that the Indians known as the Mannahattes dwelt—­or that Juet thought that they dwelt—­on both sides of the river.  That they did dwell on, and that they did give their name to, our island of Manhattan are facts absolutely established by the records of the ensuing three or four years.

During October 3d the “Half Moon” was storm-bound.  On the 4th, Juet records “Faire weather, and the wind at north north west, wee weighed and came out of the river into which we had runne so farre.”  Thence, through the Upper Bay and the Narrows, and across the Lower Bay—­with a boat out ahead to sound—­they went onward into the Sandy Hook channel.  “And by twelve of the clocke we were cleere of all the inlet.  Then we took in our boat, and set our mayne sayle and sprit sayle and our top sayles, and steered away east south east, and south east by east, off into the mayne sea.”

Juet’s log continues and concludes—­passing over unmentioned the mutiny that occurred before the ship’s course definitely was set eastward—­in these words:  “We continued our course toward England, without seeing any land by the way, all the rest of this moneth of October.  And on the seventh day of November (stilo novo), being Saturday, by the grace of God we safely arrived in the range of Dartmouth, in Devonshire, in the yeere 1609."[1]

[Footnote 1:  From Mr. Brodhead’s “History of the State of New York” I reproduce the following note, that tells of the little “Half Moon’s” dismal ending:  “The subsequent career of the ‘Half Moon’ may, perhaps, interest the curious.  The small ’ship book,’ before referred to, which I found, in 1841, in the Company’s archives at Amsterdam, besides recording the return of the yacht on the 15th of July, 1610, states that on the 2d of May, 1611, she sailed, in company with other vessels, to the East Indies, under the command of Laurens Reael; and that on the 6th of March, 1615, she was ‘wrecked and lost’ on the island of Mauritius.”]

From the standpoint of the East India Company, Hudson’s quest upon our coast and into our river—­the