This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...he saw Hudson sitting in the shallop with bound arms and angry, panic-stricken face. He caught a curse which the old sea-dog sent after his traitorous crew. Juet, he cried, will ruin you all. Nay, shouted Prickett, it is that villain Henry Greene. The distance between the two boats widened. The shallop ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...he saw Hudson sitting in the shallop with bound arms and angry, panic-stricken face. He caught a curse which the old sea-dog sent after his traitorous crew. Juet, he cried, will ruin you all. Nay, shouted Prickett, it is that villain Henry Greene. The distance between the two boats widened. The shallop fell away, first out of earshot, then out of sight. When last seen the castaways had their oars going and their sail spread, and they were coming on after the Discovery, as if in mad pursuit. The mutineers crowded on all sail, and stood away for Hudson Strait. Here they felt the need of their old master s skill and knowledge. They missed the entrance to the strait, they lost themselves in fog, they ran on rocks and icebergs. Henry Greene and four others were murdered by Eskimos on the way through the strait. The remaining four continued their course alone. By the time they had reached the eastern end of the strait they were reduced to a ration of half a bird a day. Half-way across the Atlantic they were eating the refuse of the cook s barrel. In actual sight of Ireland, one of the four, the ex-mate Juet, died of starvation. Prickett and the other survivors reached Plymouth. Why they were not all promptly hanged there is one of the enigmas of British justice. Possibly it was thought they had already suffered enough; possibly those who knew that domineering old sailor, Henry Hudson, felt they may have been justified in their mutiny. The next spring a search expedition was sent out for Hudson under the command of Sir Thomas Button. Button carefully explored Hudson Bay, but found no traces of the castaways. The fate of Hudson is one of the mysteries of the sea. Did he...
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12mo, 18.6cm, the First Edition, vi, 190p., colour frontis, map, original blind stamped green cloth, spine and cover titles stamped in off white, a very good to fine copy (clds). -There are several printings or editions between 1922, 1923, and 1927.
