Hudson Landing from the "Half Moon"

Hudson landing from the "Half Moon." Henry Hudson, an English navigator in the employ of the Dutch East India Company, while searching for a short passage to China and India, sailed by chance into what is now New York Bay; he started up the river that to-day bears his name, on Sept. 2nd, 1609, in his ship, the "Half-Moon." This voyage ended about where Albany now stands and on Oct. 4th, he set sail on his return journey to Amsterdam. Hudson was eleven days navigating up the river, a distance that is now traversed in as many hours. - letterpress caption from verso of postcard.