ch. xv] Early Voyages to Hudson s Bay 131 
Sir Francis Jones, and Sir John Wolstenholme, he arranged 
another voyage of discovery. Several noblemen and 
others also joined in the venture. 
That renowned sailor Henry Hudson had returned 
from the discovery of the river which bears his name, 
and was at once selected to command the new expedition. 
His ship was the Discovery of 55 tons. Hudson, as the 
event proved, was unwise in his selection of men to serve 
in the expedition 1 . He took Juet, a treacherous rascal, 
as mate, whose character he ought to have known, as 
he had been in his second and third expeditions. Once 
more he took his young son Jack, who had just reached 
the age of 17. Out of a complement of 23 there were 
not more than half a dozen men who could be depended 
on, when the time for testing them came. The object 
of the expedition was to seek a passage by the wide opening 
pointed out by Davis, where a " furious overfall " is 
marked on the Molyneux globe. 
Sailing from Greenhithe on the 22nd April, 1610, the 
Discovery made a prosperous voyage to Iceland, where 
there were the first signs of insubordination; Green, who 
appears to have been a man of thoroughly bad character, 
having assaulted and beaten the surgeon. Hudson made 
sail from Iceland and shaped a course direct for the 
opening indicated by Davis. He then navigated his 
ship down the strait which bears his name, with little 
or no obstruction from ice, until the entrance to the 
great bay was reached — the Mediterranean of America 
as it has been called — which was ever afterwards to be 
known as Hudson's Bay. The island on the south side 
of the entrance was named Digges and it was observed 
1 The names and rank of the crew were as follows : 
1. Henry Hudson (Captain). 
2. John Hudson (Captain's son). 
3. Robert Juet (Mate). 
4. Robert Bylot (Mate). 
5. John King (Mate). 
6. Edward Wilson (Surgeon). 
7. Francis Clements (Boatswain). 
8. William Wilson (Boatswain). 
9. John Williams (Gunner). 
10. Philip Staff e (Carpenter) 
11. Sylvanus Bond (Cooper). 
12. Bennet Mathews (Cook). 
13. Henry Green (Clerk). 
14. Habakuk Prickett (servant of 
Sir D. Digges). 
15. Thomas Woodhouse (mathe- 
matical student). 
16. Arnold Ladley (or Ludlow), 
A.B. 
17. Michael Pierce, A.B. 
18. John Thomas 
19. Adrian Moter „ 
20. Syriack Fanner 
21. Adam Moore 
22. Michael Butt 
23. Nicholas Sims (Boy). 
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