1(^0 DISCOVERIES or 1610. 



(leallna* with this man !" And now we are let 

 into Abacuk's story of the conspiracy. 



Henry Hudson had taken into his house in 

 London a voun^: man of the name of Greene, of 

 good and respectable parents, but an abandoned pro- 

 flio-ate, whom he carried with him to sea "because 

 he coukl write well," though in all probability from 

 the more humane motive of saving him from ruin. 

 This person quarrelled with the surgeon and others 

 of the crew. Pricket speaks favourably of his 

 " manhood ;" " but for religion, he would say, he 

 was cleane paper, whereon he might wnte what 

 hee would." Having thus got rid of every reli- 

 gious feeling, it follows, of course, that no moral 

 tie could bind him, and he soon began to conspire 

 against his benefactor. The provisions growing 

 short increased the discontent of the crew ; but 

 for the first three months this part of the country 

 abounded with such covies of milk-white par- 

 tridges, that they killed above a hundred dozen, 

 besides others of different sorts; and when the 

 partridges left them in the spring, their place was 

 supplied with swans, geese, ducks, and teals, but 

 all of them difficult to procure ; so difficult, he 

 tells us, that they were reduced to eat the moss 

 and frogs ; but the ice breaking up, seven men 

 were sent out in the boat, and returned the first 

 day with five hundred fish as big as good herrings, 

 and some trouts ; this supply, however, soon 

 failed them. 



