On the 25th more land was seen, and named Magna Britannia, the ship being then in about 621°. On the 2d August they had sight of a fair headland, to which was given the name of Salisbury's Foreland; and sailing from thence westsouth-west fourteen leagues, and then seven leagues farther, they found themselves in the mouth of a great strait, in which they had no bottom at one hundred fathoms. This strait is formed by the north-west point of Labrador, which was named by Hudson Cape Wolstenholm, and a cluster of islands to the north-westward of it, the nearest headland of which he named Cape Digges. From hence the land was found to trend to the southward, and a large sea opened out:-here Hudson's brief remarks end, and the account of the remaining part of this unfortunate voyage is given by one Abacuk Pricket, on whose narrative very little dependence ought, perhaps, to be placed; as to the discoveries made after Hudson's death it is perfectly useless. He scarcely gives a date, distance, or latitude, and his account of the mutinous proceedings of the crew must be received with caution, and, indeed, creates no little suspicion as to its veracity, from his connection with the mutineers, and his being permitted to remain with them in the ship.

Such as it is, however, it furnishes an awful example of the wretched condition to which mutiny and disobedience to lawful command on

board a ship at sea, never fail to bring the unhappy men who are guilty of this crime.

Pricket says, that Hudson, being beset with ice, and almost despairing whether he should ever get free from it, brought out his card and shewed the ship's company that he had entered the strait above a hundred leagues farther than any Englishman had been before, and therefore left it to their choice whether they were disposed to proceed; on which some were of one mind and some of another, some wishing themselves at home, and some not caring where they were if once out of the ice; but, he adds, "there were some who then spake words which were remembered a great while after."

The first appearance of the mutiny is stated to have been produced by Hudson displacing the mate and boatswain, "for words spoken when in the ice," and appointing others. Proceeding to the south they entered a bay on Michaelmas day, and gave it that name, and here it would seem the discontent was increased by the master insisting to weigh the anchor while the rest were desirous of remaining there. Having spent three months "in a labyrinth without end," they at length found a place on the 1st November, where they hauled the ship aground, and on the 10th were frozen in. About the middle of the month John Williams, the gunner, died; on which occasion Pricket ejaculates, "God pardon the master's uncharitable

dealing with this man!" And now we are let into Abacuk's story of the conspiracy.

Henry Hudson had taken into his house in London a young man of the name of Greene, of good and respectable parents, but an abandoned profligate, whom he carried with him to sea "because he could write well," though in all probability from. the more humane motive of saving him from ruin. This person quarrelled with the surgeon and others. of the crew. Pricket speaks favourably of his "manhood;""but for religion, he would say, he was cleane paper, whereon he might write what hee would." Having thus got rid of every religious feeling, it follows, of course, that no moral tie could bind him, and he soon began to conspire against his benefactor. The provisions growing short increased the discontent of the crew; but for the first three months this part of the country abounded with such covies of milk-white partridges, that they killed above a hundred dozen, besides others of different sorts; and when the partridges left them in the spring, their place was. supplied with swans, geese, ducks, and teals, but all of them difficult to procure; so difficult, he tells us, that they were reduced to eat the moss and frogs; but the ice breaking up, seven men were sent out in the boat, and returned the first day with five hundred fish as big as good herrings, and some trouts; this supply, however, soon failed them.

Hudson now began to make preparations for leaving the bay in which they had wintered; previous to which he delivered out all the bread, being a pound to each man for about a fortnight, "and he wept when he gave it unto them." They had five cheeses, which were also divided among them, and which afforded three pounds and a half for seven days. They then stood to the northwest, and on the 18th June fell in with ice, and on the 21st, being still in the ice, Wilson the boatswain and Greene came to Pricket, who was lying lame in his cabin, and told him that they and the rest of their associates meant to turn the master and all the sick into the boat, and leave them to shift for themselves; that there was not fourteen days' victuals left for the whole crew; that they had not eaten any thing the last three days, and were therefore resolved" either to mend or end; and what they had begun they would go through with it or die." Pricket of course says he dissuaded them from their horrid design, but that Greene bad him to hold his tongue, for he knew the worst, and he would rather be hanged at home than starved abroad. Presently came five or six others to Pricket's cabin, where the following oath was administered to each of the conspirators: "You shall swear truth to God, your prince, and country; you shall do nothing but to the glory of God and the good of the action in hand, and harm to no man:" and so it very soon appeared; for, on

Hudson's coming out of his cabin, they seized and bound his arms behind him; and on his asking them what they meant, they told him he should know when he was in the boat.

The boat was accordingly hauled along side, "and the poore sicke and lame men were called upon to get them out of their cabbins into the shallop." Immediately the Captain, his son, and seven others were driven into the boat; and at fowling piece, some powder and shot, a few pikes, an iron pot, a little meal, and some other articles, thrown in at the same time. The mutineers then cut the tow rope and let her go adrift among the ice, where she was left with these unfortunate men, in a situation which cannot be contemplated without horror, and a feeling of deep indignation at the brutal perpetrators of this most atrocious act; and most of all, at the base ingratitude of the wretch who had been fed, clothed, and rescued from ruin by Hudson.

As soon as the boat was out of sight, Pricket says Greene came to him and told him that it was the will of the ship's company that he (Pricket) should go up into the master's cabin, and take charge of it, which, after some reluctance, he tells us he did. The first dispute among the people was, which way they should steer, one being for standing to the north-west, and another to the northeast; however they were soon beset in the ice, where they remained shut up for fourteen days; and when at length they escaped from the ice,