Ocean's Story; or, Triumphs of Thirty Centuries Maritime Adventures, Achievements, Explorations, Discoveries and Inventions; and of the Rise and Progress of Ship-Building and Ocean Navigation, from the Ark to the Iron Steamships

CHAPTER XXXIII.--Quiros' Theory of a Southern Continent--His Arguments

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and Memorials--His First Voyage--Discoveries--Encarnaçion--Sagittaria, or Tahiti--Description of these Islands--Manicolo--Espiritu Santo--Its Productions and Inhabitants--Quiros before the King of Spain--His Belief in his Discovery of a Continent--His Disappointment--Renewed Solicitations--Death of Quiros--Discoveries of Torrès--The Muscovy Company of London--Henry Hudson--His Voyages to Spitzbergen and Nova Zembla--His Voyage to America--Casts Anchor at Sandy Hook--Ascends the Hudson River as far as the Site of Albany--His Voyage to Iceland and Hudson's Bay--Disastrous Winter--Mutiny--Hudson set adrift--His Death 316