Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1888 — Henry Hudson’s Mermaid. [ARTICLE]

Henry Hudson’s Mermaid.

Henry Hudson also discovered the east coast of Greenland and a mermaid. This, at least, is what he recorded of the latter incident: “One of our company looking overboard, saw a mermaid, and, calling up some of the company to see her, one more came up, and she was then close to the ship’s side, looking earnestly on the men. Soon afterward a sea came and overturned her. Her back and breasts were like a woman’s, her body as big as one of us; her skin very white, and long, black hair hanging down behind. In her going down they saw her tail, like the tail of a porpose, and speckled like mackerel. Their names that saw her were Thomas Hills and Robert Rayner.” —All the Year Hound.