When Hudson and the men were deposited in the boat, the mutineers busied themselves with breaking open chests and pillaging the ship.  They found in the cabin a considerable quantity of biscuit, and a butt of beer; and there were a few pieces of pork, some meal, and a half bushel of peas in the hold.  These supplies were enough to save them from immediate starvation; and they expected to find plenty of game at Digges’s Cape.

Henry Greene was appointed commander, though evidently too ignorant for the place.  It was a full month before they could find their way to the Strait, which leads out of the great Bay in which they had wintered.  Part of this time they were detained by the ice; but several days were spent in searching for the passage into Davis’s Strait.  During this time they landed often, and sometimes succeeded in catching a few fish or wild fowl; but supplied their wants principally by gathering the cockle-grass, which was growing in abundance on every part of the shore.  They arrived within sight of Digges’s Cape about the last of July, and immediately sent the boat on shore for provisions.  The men who landed found considerable quantities of game, as it was a place where the wild fowl breed.  There were great numbers of savages about the shore, who appeared very friendly, and testified their joy by lively gestures.

The next day Henry Greene went ashore, accompanied by Wilson, Thomas, Perse, Moter, and Pricket.  The last was left in the boat, which was made fast to a large rock, and the others went on shore in search of provisions.  While some of the men were busy in gathering sorrel from the rocks, and Greene was surrounded by the natives, with whom he was trading, Pricket, who was lying in the stern of the boat, observed one of the savages coming in at the bows.  Pricket made signs to him to keep off; and while he was thus occupied, another savage stole round behind him.  Pricket suddenly saw the leg and foot of a man by him, and looking up, perceived a savage with a knife in his hand, aiming a blow at him.  He prevented the wound from being fatal, by raising his arm and warding off the blow; but was still severely cut.  Springing up, he grappled with the savage, and drawing his dagger, at length put him to death.

[Illustration:  SAVAGES ON THE SHORE]

In the meantime, Greene and the others were assaulted by the savages on shore, and with difficulty reached the boat, all of them wounded except Perse and Moter.  The latter saved his life by plunging into the water, and catching hold of the stern of the boat.  No sooner had they pushed off, than the savages let fly a shower of arrows, which killed Greene outright, and mortally wounded some of the others, among them Perse, who had hitherto escaped.  Perse and Moter began to row toward the ship, but Perse soon fainted, and Moter was left to manage the boat alone, as he had escaped unwounded.  The body of Greene was thrown immediately into the sea.  Wilson and Thomas died that day in great torture, and Perse two days afterwards.