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&quot; Hudson s Journal ends on the 3rd of August and, 

 the remainder of the melancholy story is told by 

 Abacuk Pricket, who states that they were frozen 

 in, on the 10th November, in the south-east part 

 of the bay, after sailing three months through 

 a labyrinth of islands. Dissensions had early 

 sprung up among the crew, and in the June 

 following a mutiny broke out headed by Robert 

 Juet and Henry Greene. On the 21st, Hudson 

 was seized by the conspirators, and, with his 

 young son, forced into a small boat. The car 

 penter, John King, accompanied him voluntarily, 

 while six sick men were also forced into the boat, 

 which was cut adrift, never to be heard of again. 

 On the way home Juet and others of the leading 

 mutineers were killed by the Eskimos at Cape 

 Diggs, and the remainder only reached England 

 after great sufferings from famine and other hard 

 ships.&quot; 



Sir John Button, came next, and sailing through sir John 

 the channel between Cape Chidley and the Button I612 

 Button Islands, gave his name to the latter. He 

 passed through Hudson Straits, crossed the Bay 

 and reaching land north of Chesterfield Inlet, he, 

 in his disappointment, called it &quot; Hopes Checked.&quot; 

 He then turned southward, discovered the Nelson 

 River, and was the first to winter with a ship s 

 crew in those regions. 



James Hall and William Baffin, who gave his Haiiand 

 name to Baffin Land, followed. Baffin sailed Baffin - 1615 

 through Hudson Strait, and returning explored 

 Davis Strait sailing up the West Coast of Green- 



