HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY'S HOUSE, LONDON.
Communication had with the natives, who were nomads, taught the English how to make distant journeys, and gradually, with their aid, to penetrate farther and farther into the interior. But to live in the country at all, they had, in a great measure, to adapt themselves to the natives' way of life, and to make journeys they had to adopt the rude conveyances found in use among them.
FOOTNOTES
[1] Henry Hudson. The same who discovered and named Hudson River of New York.
[2] Prince Rupert, of Bavaria, commanded the cavalry of Charles I. during the Civil War (1642): after the Restoration he devoted himself to scientific pursuits.
[3] James' Bay. Like Davis, Baffin, Hudson, etc., the name is that of an arctic navigator. It opens at the bottom of Hudson's Bay.
[4] The English Factories, at that time, were Forts Nelson, Albany, Hayes and Rupert.