He couldn't sleep, and Tawny Hudson is no good for that sort of thing.

" "Henry (or as the Dutch historians call him, Hendrick) Hudson was a seafaring man of renown, who had learned to smoke tobacco under Sir Walter Raleigh, and is said to have been the first to introduce it into Holland, which gained him much popularity in that country, and caused him to find great favor in the eyes of their High Mightinesses, the Lords States General, and also of the honorable East India Company.

Port Hudson, between Vicksburg and New Orleans, was now the only important Confederate position on the Mississippi.

Hudson was a capital observer and writer when he dealt with the ordinary birds and mammals of the well-settled districts near Buenos Aires and at the mouth of the Rio Negro; but he knew nothing of the wilderness.

Larry Hudson is a typical American boy, whose hard work and enterprise gain him his ambition,an education and a start in the world.

The Hudson, Oswego, Genesee, and Niagara (with its famous waterfall) are the principal rivers, while the St. Lawrence forms part of the northern boundary.