16IL HENRY HUDSON. 1^5 



human and atrocious act that had been committed. 

 Pricket, it is true, had disposed of the principal 

 mutineers, and no doubt himself and lliose few 

 who returned home made it out that they were 

 compelled to enter into the conspiracy, or at least 

 to remain neutral. It is to be remarked that the 

 part of Hudson's Journal which they brought home 

 terminates on the 3d August, 1810, vv hen between 

 the Capes Wolstenholme and Digges, but Hudson 

 was not seized and thrust into the boat till the 

 21st June, 1811. Is it not then very surprizing 

 that no inquiry should have been made for the 

 master's journal during this long period ? Pricket 

 was the very person to have been made account- 

 able, for he admits that he took charge of the 

 master's cabin, and that Greene gave him the key 

 of the master's chest. A shrewd navigator, com- 

 menting on the transactions of this voyage, says, 

 " Well, Pricket, I am in great doubt of thy fidelity 

 to Master Hudson."* 



SIR THOMAS BUTTON. l6l2. 



The moral character of Abacuk Pricket, and of 

 Robert Bylot, would not seem to have suffered very 

 greatly in the eyes of the Merchant- Ad ventvners, 



* North-west Fox, p. 117. 

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