what river did henry hudson sail up?
Hudson River
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 Forty leagues ( 120 nautical miles or around 220 km ) to the east of Surinam , Low and his fleet of two ships ( the Rose Pink and the Fancy , captained by a young Charles Harris ) dropped anchor to remove growth such as seaweed and barnacles from the outside of the boats , in a process known as careening , necessary because no dry dock was available to pirates . 

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 Wasp and Henry sailed from New York on June 21 , 1822 , and remained together as far as the Falkland Islands . They then separated , Wasp travelling east in search of sealing grounds . Morrell 's account of the next few months of the voyage , in Antarctic and subantarctic waters , is controversial . His claims of distances , latitudes and discoveries have been challenged as inaccurate or impossible , giving substance to his reputation among his contemporaries for untruth , and leading to much criticism by later writers . 

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 He sails from Barra ( continuing the story from Chapter 7 ) to Ega . In Solimões ( the Upper Amazons ) the soil is clay , alluvium or deep humus , with rich vegetation . They catch a manatee ( sea cow ) which tastes like coarse pork with greenish , fish @-@ flavoured fat , and he is badly bitten by small " Pium " bloodsucking flies . Pieces of pumice have floated 1200 miles ( 1900 km ) from the Andes volcanoes . Bates observes a large landslip on which masses of giant forest trees rock to and fro . He notes there are discomforts but " scarcely any danger from wild animals " . He becomes desperate for intellectual society , running out of reading matter , even the advertisements in the Athenaeum journal . He describes the food and fruits at Ega , and the curious seasons , with two wet and two dry seasons each year , the river thus rising and falling twice . The people regularly eat turtles . 

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 From 1499 to 1508 a number of other expeditions were launched from Bristol to the ' New found land ' , the earliest being undertaken by William Weston . One of these , led by John Cabot 's son , Sebastian Cabot , explored down the coast of North America until he was ‘ almost in the latitude of Gibraltar ’ and ‘ almost the longitude of Cuba ’ . This would suggest that he reached as far as the Chesapeake , close to what is now Washington D.C. 

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 Molyneux accompanied Francis Drake on his 1577 – 1580 circumnavigation of the world ; as Ubaldini reported , " [ h ] e himself has been in those seas and on those coasts in the service of the same Drake " . A legend in Latin on the terrestrial globe , explaining why Molyneux had left out the polar lands and corrected the distance across the Atlantic Ocean between The Lizard and Cape Race in Newfoundland , concluded : 
