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their provisions were all gone, but they reached 

 some islands on which thev o-athered cockle-orass 

 to eat. They novv^ began to talk among them- 

 selves that England would be no safe place tor 

 them, " and Henry Greene swore the shippe 

 should not come into any place, but keep the sea 

 still, till he had the kin2:'s maiestie's hand and 

 scale to shew for his safety;" and this Greene at 

 length became their captain. 



On the 127th July they reached some island 

 near Cape Digges, at the western extremity of 

 Hudson's Strait, where they got som.e gulls to 

 feed upon, and some cockle-grass ; and here they 

 met with a great number of savages, with whom 

 at first they were on friendly terms, but a quarrel 

 soon ensued, in which Greene was killed, and three 

 died of the wounds they had received in the 

 scuffle. Pricket, after fighting manfully, by his 

 own account, was also severely wounded — " and 

 thus," he says, " you have heard the tragicall end 

 of Henr}^ Greene and his mates, whom they 

 called Captaine ; these four being the only lustie 

 men in all the ship :" the survivors, says Purchas, 

 were now in the most dreadful plight; provisions 

 nearly gone, and themselves cut off from the only 

 spot on which they had calculated on procuring a 

 supply of sea fowl. They contrived, however, 

 to procure about three hundred of these fowls. 

 They now stood to the westward, and endeavoured 

 to shape their course for Ireland. They had a 



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