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Mailer that if he kept that Courfe we iliould be Upon 
the Rocks ; the Mailer conceived that he was pail 
them, when prefently we ran on them, and there 
“ iluck fail twelve Hours, but by the Mercy of God 
we got off unhurt. We flood to the Eail, and an- 
“ chored in a Bay •, here the Maker fent me and the 
“ Carpenter, in a Boat, to feek a Place to winter in, 
and it was time, the Days being long and cold, and 
‘‘ the Earth being covered with Snow, having fpent 
“ three Months, to no Purpofe, and it being now the 
‘‘ laft Day of Otlober. 
“ On the fi'rft of November we found a Place where- 
unto we brought our Ship, and haled her a-ground ; 
“ on the loth we were frozen in, and now it concerned 
“ us to take care of what we had, and fo to fpend, 
“ that we might have wherewith to keep us alive, until 
we ihould come at the Capes where the Fowl breed ; 
“ for there were all the Hopes we had of finding Subfift- 
“ ence to bring us home. Our Mailer therefore ap- 
“ pointed a Reward to them that killed Boat-fifh, or 
“ Fowl. We were vidlualled for fix Months, in good 
Proportion, and of that which was good *, and if our 
“ Maker would have had more he might have been 
“ fupplied at Home and in other Places ^ and it is 
“ krange he did not prevent the Hunger we endured, 
“ which occafioned the Overthrow of himfelf and many 
“ other honek Men.” 
It appears very clearly from this Relation, which is 
indeed the only one we have of this famous Voyage *, 
concerning which it is not eafy to determine if it was mok 
for the Advantage of this Nation or ruinous to the brave 
Man who undertook it j that he was refolved to krike 
out fomething new, and not to wake his time, in retrace- 
ing other Peoples Footkeps ; and therefore when he came 
to the Mouth of DavNs Streighls, he continued keering 
directly Wek, and then as the Coak diredled him 
through thofe Streights, that fince bear his Name, till 
he doubled Cape Worfinham^ and then he failed down 
the Wek Coak of New Britain to the very Bottom of 
the Bay, where he made Choice of a Place to winter in, 
that was very near as far South as any Part of the Ifland 
of Great Britain^ and at the very Back of the French Set- 
tlements in Canada. Captain Hudfon was a very good 
Judge of the Importance and Confequences of his Difco- 
very, which induced him to winter there, in Hopes of 
performing fomething very confiderable the next Seafon, 
which very probably he would have done if his Men had 
not mutinied, and configned him over to the Savages to 
be murdered. 
The Relation we have of his Voyage from Pricket, is 
chieky calculated to give an Account of this Mutiny ; but 
as it is more to our Purpofe to come at as good an Account 
as we can of the Voyage itfelf we fhall endeavour to pick 
out of it what relates to that Matter, and then give a 
kiort Relation of that Accident which dekroyed Captain 
Hudfon, and all his Hopes. “ It would be tedious, fays 
“ he, to relate the Hardfhips we endured whilk we win- 
“ tered in this Place •, the Cold was fo extreme that it 
“ lamed mok of our Company, but I muk not forget 
“ God’s great Mercy to us in fending fiich Store of white 
“ Partriges, during the firk three Months, that we 
killed above one hundred Dozen, bekdes other Fowl 
“ of fundry forts. 
The Spring approaching the Partriges left us, and 
were fucceeded by other Fowl as Swans, Geefe, 
Ducks, and Teal, but hard to come by •, they came 
“ from the South and kew to the North ; but if they be 
“ taken kiort by a northerly Wind, then they fall, and 
kaytilltheWind ferves them, and then ky to theNorth- 
ward. As the Summer came on the Fowls were gone, 
and few or none to be feen. Then we fearched the 
“ Woods, Hills, and Vallies, for any thing that might 
ferve for Food, though never fo vile •, the Frogs (in 
the time of their engendering, as loathfome as Toads) 
were not fpared, nor the Mofs that grew on the 
“ Ground ; but amongk divers forts of Vegetables, 
Fhomas Woodhoufe brought home a Bud of a Tree full 
“ of a Turpentine Subkance j of this our Surgeon made a 
Decoftion to drink, and applied the Buds hot to fuch 
“ as were troubled with Aches in any Part of their Bodies ; 
“ and I muk confefs I received thereby prefent Eafe of 
“ my Pain. As foon as the Ice began to break out of 
“ the Bays, a Savage came to our Ship, being the krk 
we had feen in all this time % our Maker entertained 
him well, promifing to himfelf great Matters by his 
“ Means, and therefore would have to his own Ufe ail 
“ the Knives and Hatchets that every Man had, but re- 
ceived none except from John King the Carpenter, and 
“ myfelf. To this Savage our Maker gave a Knife, a 
“ Looking-glafs,' and Buttons •, who received them 
“ thankfully, and made Signs that after he had kept he 
“ would come again ; as he did. When he came again, 
“ he drew after him a Sledge, and upon it two Deer- 
“ Skins and two Beaver-Skins ; he laid the Knife upon 
“ one of the Beaver-Skins, and his Glafs and Buttons 
“ upon the other, and fo gave them to the Maker, who 
“ received them •, and the Savage took thofe Things the 
“ Maker had given him, and put them into his Scrip i 
“ then the Maker fhewed him an Flatchet, for which he 
“ would have given the Maker one of his Deer Skins ; 
“ but the Maker would have them both, and fo he had ; 
“ but not willingly. 
“ After many Signs of People to the South and to 
“ the North, and that, after fo many Sleeps, he would 
come again, he went his way 5 but never came more. 
“ The Sound being now clear of Ice, fo that our Boat 
“ could go from onePlacefro another, JVilfon, Green, and 
“ kve more, were ordered to go a filhing with our Net. 
“ They caught the krk Day, kve hundred Fifhes as big 
‘‘ as large Herrings, which put us all in good Hopes to 
“ have our Wants fupplied ; but thofe were the mok that 
“ ever they caught in one Day, and many Days they 
“ got not a Quarter fo many. In this Time of their 
“ klhing, Green, Wilfon, and fome others, plotted to take 
“ the Net,, and the Shallop which the Carpenter had 
newly fet up, and fo to fhift for themfelves *, but the 
“ Shallop being ready, our Maker would go in it himfelf 
“ to the South and South- wek, to fee if he could meet 
“ with People j for that Way we could fee the Woods 
“ burning ; So taking with him as much Provikon as 
“ would ferVe for eight or nine Days, he went towards the 
“ South, and fet no Time for his Return •, becaufe he 
“ was perfuaded, if he could meet with People, he fhould 
“ have FleJfh of them, and that good Store ; but he re- 
“ turned worfe than he went forth *, for although he was 
“ fo near them as to fee them fet the Woods on kre, yet 
“ could he not by any Means come to the Speech of 
“ them. 
“ Being come on board, he ktfed all Things for his 
“ Return •, and krk delivered all the Bread out of the 
“ Bread-room, which came to a Pound apiece for every 
“ Man’s Share ; and delivered alfo a Bill of Return, 
“ willing them to have that to fhew, if it fhould pleafe 
“ God they fhould come home, and wept when he gave 
“ it to them : But to help us to fome Relief in this poor 
“ Ekate, our Boat went to work on Friday Morning, 
“ and kaid till Sunday Noon, and brought fourfcore 
“ fmail Fifhes; a poor Relief for fo many hungry Bellies, 
“ Then we weighed, and kood out of our Wintering- 
“ place, and anchored without at the Mouth of the Bay ; 
“ where, our Bread being gone, what Store of Cheefe we 
“ had was to kop a Gap, whereof there were kve, at 
“ which time the Company grudged, becaufe by their 
“ Reckoning there fhould have been nine, but thofe that 
“ were left were equally divided by the Maker, although 
“ he was advifed to the contrary, becaufe there were 
fome who could not govern themfelves.” 
It was this Refolution of the Maker’s, to make all fare 
alike for the fake of profeeuting the Voyage with effedl, 
than which no Man was more like to do it than himfelf, 
that drew upon him his Dekrufrion ; for his old Mate, 
one Green, and fome other People in the Ship, refolving 
to leken the Number of Hands, and fo get all the Pro- 
vikons that were left to themfelves, mok barbarouky con- 
trived to turn Captain Hudfon, the Carpenter, and all the 
kck Men, out of the Ship ; after which they determined tc^ 
make the bek of their Way for England;. This they per- 
formed 
