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2003 in sportsSee also: 2002 in sports, other events of 2003, 2004 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'.
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till the middle of September, and then to return to Holland around
A long time elapsed, through contrary winds, before the Company
ordered the ship.html">ship.html">ship and crew to return as soon as possible. But, when
Englishmen of the ship were commanded by the government there
thought it strange that captains should thus be prevented from laying
for the benefit of navigation in general. This took place in January,
would send ships to Virginia, to explore further the aforesaid river.
END OF PROJECT GUTENBERG ETEXT "ON HUDSON'S
Isaack de Rasieres, Letter of Isaack de Rasieres to Samuel
New Netherland, 1609-1664 (Original Narratives of Early
not how otherwise to recompense you than by this slight memoir,
concerning the situation of New Netherland and its neighbors, and
more in detail, and better than I have now done, but that my things
been taken away from me), I will beg you to be pleased to receive
with the ship The Arms of Amsterdam, before the bay of the great
Point, into Coenraet's Bay; (because there the greatest depth is,
there is only from 9 to 14 feet of water), then sailed on, northeast
called Godyn's Point to the Hamels-Hoofden, the mouth of the
is a sandy reef a musket shot broad, stretching for the most part
having been formed there by the stream, inasmuch as the flood runs
is caused by the tide flowing out along there with such rapidity.
Between the Hamels-Hoofden the width is about a cannon's shot
high points, and well wooded. The west point is an island.html">island, inhabited
maize. The east point is a very large island, full 24-leagues long,
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