first introductions to the original
settlers of Manhattan. The In-
dians soon drew near in their
canoes, and in an attempt at
parley offered tobacco as a peace-
offering.

On the eleventh of September
the craft came up through the
Narrows, and anchored in full
view of Manhattan Island, with
the great river stretching north- Z
ward even beyond the gaze or | Nie
knowledge of the explorers, and
which they believed was the long-
looked-for pathway to Cathay.
The following days were occu-
pied by the voyage up the river,
and on the seventeenth they ar-
rived opposite the present city of
Hudson.