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Rh any notice, probably because a western inlet there would have taken him in amid ’s s. On 3, in 40°30′, he entered the fine  now known by the  of. After having gone 150 up what is now the , treating with the , ing the , and trying the  above -, he became satisfied that this course did not lead to the  or , a conclusion in harmony with that of , who the  had been making his way south through  and  to the. The two explorers by opposite routes approached within 20 s of each other. On 4 the &ldquo;Half-Moon&rdquo; weighed for the, and on  7 put in to , where she was seized by the   and the crew detained. The voyage had fallen short of Hudson’s expectations, but it served many purposes perhaps as important to the. Among other results it exploded ’s, which from the of ’s map in  to the 3d charter of  in   he had lost no opportunity of promulgating, that near 40° there was a narrow , formed by the  of , like that of  or .]

Hudson’s three failures served only to increase men’s confidence in the existence of a passage by the north-west, for the discovery of which a new and strong joint- was accordingly formed. The command was given to Hudson, who on 10,,  in the &ldquo;Discoverie&rdquo; of 70, the  that took  in  in the same direction. How he penetrated through the long, discovered the that bears his , at once his  and his , how he and his men ed in its southern extremity, how in coming north in the , near the east , half way back to the , he, his son, and seven of his men, in a , were put into a  and cut adrift on   , is told in many books. The ringleaders and half the crew perished miserably, but the &ldquo;Discoverie&rdquo; was finally brought home to. No more tidings were received of Hudson, but no one doubted the complete success of his voyage. was in, under , to complete the exploration of the passage, and to find the lost discoverer and his companions. was the commander in, and the &ldquo;Discoverie&rdquo; was again the chosen. In the voyage was repeated by, and once more in  by ; and  was thoroughly explored with the results which have long been universally familiar.

1em  HUDSON’S BAY COMPANY is a joint- association formed for the purpose of ing into the s and s which it obtains, chiefly by, from the of. The  of the  are dotted over the immense region (excluding  and ) which is bounded E. and W. by the  and s, and N. and S. by the  and the. From these the s are despatched by  or  to  on, whence they are  to  to be  by.

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1em  HUE, or HUE-FOO (variously called QTJANG-DUK, PHU- THUA-THIEN, and SAN HUE), the capital of the kingdom of Anam, is situated in a province of its own name, on the left bank of the Truong-Tien or Hue river, which falls into the Chinese Sea about 8 miles further down in 16 34 28&quot; N. lat. and 107 38 39&quot; E. long. The surrounding country is a flat alluvial plain, traversed by streams and canals, and largely occupied by extensive rice-fields ; to the south-west, at a distance of about 3 or 4 miles, rise the Ai-van hills, of which Hondun has a height of 1445 feet. The centre of Hu6 is formed by the citadel, which was built in the reign of Gialong (d. 1820) after the plans of the French colonel Olivier, It is 7323 feet square, has six equal bastions on each side, and is surrounded by ditches about 120 feet in width, but not more than 5 or 6 feet in depth. Yithin are the royal residence, the houses of the ministers, the treasury, the arsenal, the barracks, &c., the royal residence, or Thanh Noi, having a special encincture of its own, measuring about 2290 feet each way. The inner town or citadel has a population of 30,000, inclusive of the garrison, and there are nearly as many in the suburbs and market- villages within a radius of 2^ miles. The suburb of Mang- Sa (i.e., Fish Mouth) at the north-east corner of the citadel is the centre of the local traffic, and the neighbouring part of the river serves as an inner harbour. At the village Thanh Phuoc, about 2 miles below the town, are the winter 