The Dutch Fur-Traders .-- Hudson's failure to find a new way to India made the Dutch India Company lose interest in American exploration.

But many Dutch merchants were greatly interested in Hudson's account of the "Great River of the Mountain." They thought that they could make money from trading for furs with the Indians.

They sent many expeditions to Hudson's River, and made a great deal of money.
Some of their captains explored the coast northward and southward as far as Boston harbor and Delaware Bay.

Their principal trading-posts were on Manhattan Island, and near the site of Albany.

In 1614 some of the leading traders obtained from the Dutch government the sole right to trade between New France and Virginia.