![]() ![]() ![]() The only alternative ever found was in 1499 when Vasco da Gama sailed from Portugal and went around Africa to the Indian Ocean. His employer, Holland, would soon be in its golden age, offering the world Rembrandt, the microscope, and the stock exchange, but not, as Hudson and his sponsors had hoped, a river through North America leading to China.Ī water route to Chinese trade replacing the long, arduous Silk Road was a great dream of the Renaissance. Hudson was a seventeenth-century man in search of a fifteenth-century dream. ![]() In 1609, when Henry Hudson, a British explorer employed by the Dutch, sailed into New York Harbor on his eighty-five-foot ship, Halve Maen, with a half-British, half-Dutch crew of sixteen, he found the same thing Mackay would two and a half centuries later-a local population with the habit of feasting on excellent New York Harbor oysters. Eleanor Clark, The Oysters of Locmariaquer, 1959 Obviously, if you don’t love life, you can’t enjoy an oyster. ![]()
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