Excerpt from Kingston: Its Representative Business Men and Its Points of Interest But the record of these happenings does not, strictly speaking, form a part of the early history of Kingston, for the first attempts at settlement in this place were made more than 150 years before the Revolution, so that in order to get at the first beginnings here we must go back to the good old days when Holland and not Britannia ruled the waves when the Dutch people were as bold explorers as they were successful traders and when no other nation was more respected or formed a more powerful factor in the world's development. We must go back to 1609, when Hendrick Hudson set sail from Hol land in the little ship Half-moon, furnished him by the Dutch East India Company, by whom he was commissioned to seek a passage to the East Indies. Having crossed the ocean, he coasted along the shores of America, and September 12, 1609, passed through a narrow strait, entered a magnificent bay. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.