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MUTINY OF HUDSON S CREW. 
siderable degree the stock of knowledge of the geographical 
situation, or extent of the countries which he had visited. Re¬ 
lying however upon his superior science, and the favourable 
reports which he made, the former projectors of his expeditions 
determined upon fitting out another, and the command was 
accordingly given to Hudson. It is however remarkable, that 
although the failure of many of the preceding expeditions, had 
been attributed to the smallness of the vessels employed on the 
occasion, from their total incompetency to contend against the 
fields of ice, through which they had to make their way, yet in 
the present instance, a tiny vessel of only fifty five tons, was 
equipped with provisions for only six months, and with these 
inadequate means Hudson sailed to navigate an ocean in which 
the most appalling dangers confronted him on every side. 
For some time success appeared to smile upon him; he sailed 
through Frobisher’s Strait, where he had to contend with contrary 
winds, and vast accumulations of ice. Persisting however in a 
westernly course, he arrived at the north-western point of Labrador, 
which he named Cape Wolstenholm, near to which he discovered 
a cluster of Islands to the nearest head-land, of which he gave 
the name of Cape Digges. The land was here observed to have 
a southernly direction, and the heart of the intrepid mariner 
was cheered with the hope, that the object of his voyage was 
obtained, as a great open sea stretched itself before him, which 
he flattered himself might be the long sought for channel into 
the Pacific. Here however the narrative of the unfortunate 
Hudson terminates, and the subsequent part is only to be gathered 
from the spurious and doubtful testimony of Abacuk Pricket, one 
of the mutineers. 
For some time a spirit of discontent had manifested itself 
amongst the crew, but it had not yet broken out into open rebel¬ 
lion. From Purchas’ Pilgrims we learn, that Hudson with the 
view of befriending a young man of the name of Green, who had 
shown a predilection for the sea, took him under his protection, 
and from the respectability of his connexions, he was led to 
believe that he should find in him a youth of integrity and honor. 
For the purpose of exonerating him from the duty of the ship, 
