18S DISCOVERIES OF 



1610. 



On the 25th more land ^vas seen, and named 

 Magna Britannia, the ship heing then in about 

 62F. On the 2d August they had sight of a fair 

 headland, to which was given the name of Salis- 

 bury s Foreland ; and sailing from thence west- 

 south-wxst Iburteen leagues, and then seven 

 leagues farther, they found themselves in the 

 mouth of a great strait, in which they had no bot- 

 tom at one hundred fathoms. This strait is formed 

 by the north-west point of Labrador, which was 

 named by Hudson Cape JVolstenholm, and a 

 cluster of islands to the north-westward of it, the 

 nearest headland of which he named Cape Digges. 

 From hence the land was found to trend to the 

 southward, and a large sea opened out: — here 

 Hudson's brief remarks end, and the account of 

 the remaining part of this unfortunate voyage is 

 given by one Abacuk Pricket, on whose narrative 

 very little dependence ought, perhaps, to be placed; 

 as to the discoveries made after Hudson's death it is 

 perfectly useless. He scarcely gives a date, dis- 

 tance, or latitude, and his account of the mutinous 

 proceedings of the crew must be received Avith 

 caution, and, indeed, creates no little suspicion as 

 to its veracity, from his connection with the muti- 

 neers, and his being permitted to remain with them 

 m the ship. 



Such as it is, however, it furnishes an awful 

 example of the wretched condition to which 

 mutiny and disobedience to lawful command ou, 



