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short of provisions ; and soon after the vessel was got 

 afloat in the summer of 1611, the crew mutinied, 

 barbarously forced their Captain, his son, and seven 

 of the crew, mostly invalids, into a boat, with a 

 most scanty supply of the necessaries of life, and 

 abandoned them to a miserable fate. The chief of 

 the mutineers, one Green, who had received the 

 most distinguished favours from Hudson, being 

 preserved by him from ruin, taken into his own 

 house, and afterwards allowed to accompany him on 

 his voyage, met with a speedy requital for his base in- 

 gratitude. He landed with some of his companions 

 near the western extremity of Hudson's Strait, 

 where he met with some savages, who, though at 

 first they appeared on friendly terms, unexpectedly 

 attacked his party, killed the base ingrate, and 

 mortally wounded three others. Another person, 

 said to be also among the chiefs in the mutiny, died 

 of want on the passage homeward. 



Sill Thomas Button, with two ships, proceed- 

 ed towards the north-west in the year 1612, on the 

 same track as the unfortunate Hudson pursued. He 

 first stretched across to the western sliore of Hud- 

 soil's Hay, examined a part of the coast, and then 

 took up his winter quarters in a creek on the north 

 side of a river which he discovered, and named Nel^ 

 solids lliver. As soon as the ice cleared away, he 

 examined the western side of the bay, as high along 

 Southampton Lsland as latitude ^5°, gave names 



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