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board a ship at sea, never fail to bring the unhappy 

 men who are guilty of this crime. 



Pricket says, that Hudson, being beset with ice, 

 and almost despairhig whether he should ever get 

 free from it, brought out his card and shewed the 

 ship's company that he had entered the strait 

 above a hundred leagues farther than any English- 

 man had been before, and therefore left it to their 

 choice whether they were disposed to proceed ; on 

 which some were of one mind and some of 

 another, some wishing themselves at home, and 

 some not caring where they were if once out of 

 the ice ; but, he adds, ^' there were some who then 

 spake words which were remembered a great while 

 after." 



The first appearance of the mutiny is stated to 

 have been produced by Hudson displacing the 

 mate and boatswain, " for words spoken when in 

 the ice," and appointing others. Proceeding to 

 the south they entered a bay on Michaelmas day, 

 and gave it that name, and here it would seem the 

 discontent was increased by the master insisting to 

 weigh the anchor while the rest were desirous of 

 remaining there. Having spent three months " in 

 a labyrinth without end," they at length found a 

 place on the 1st November, where they hauled the 

 ship aground, and on the 10th were frozen in. 

 About the middle of the month John Williams, 

 the gunner, died ; on which occasion Pricket 

 ejaculates, " God pardon the master's uncharitable 



