REGARDING THE OBJECT AND QUEST OF AN ALL-WATER ROUTE FROM EUROPE TO INDIA; THE OBSTACLES IN THE WAY; AND ALSO HUDSON’S VOYAGE TO AMERICA IN 1609 AND SOME OF ITS RESULTS BY FRANK CHAMBERLAIN ALBANY J. B. LYON COMPANY, PRINTERS 1909 COPYRIGHT 1909 By Frank Chamberlain Let us turn back the pages of history and take a cursory view of what gave the wonderful stimulus to maritime adventure; and what so long delayed the discovery of the western world by the Europeans. Civilized mankind scarcely secures