It may be worthy of notice, that Sir Henry Hudson never revisited the pleasant region which he had discovered, and which he had pronounced to be ‘as beautiful a land as the foot of man can tread upon.’  In the summer of 1610, Hudson entered the service of a London company and sailed from the Thames in the “Discovery,” in search of either a Northwest or Northeast passage to the Indies.  Passing Iceland, appropriately so called, he gazed with astonishment upon Hecla in full eruption, throwing its fiery flood and molten stones into the air.  Doubling the Cape of Greenland, he entered Davis’s Straits.  Through these he passed into the gloomy waters beyond.

After spending a dismal winter, in the endurance of great privation, exposed to severe Arctic storms, his mutinous crew abandoned him, in the midst of fields of ice, to perish miserably.  The following artless account of this tragedy, which is taken from the lips of one of the mutineers, will be read with interest.  The ship was surrounded with ice and the crew in a starving condition.

“They had been detained at anchor in the ice,” says Pricket,

“about a week, when the first signs of the mutiny appeared.  Green, and Wilson the boatswain, came in the night to me, as I was lying in my berth very lame and told me that they and several of the crew had resolved to seize Hudson and set him adrift in the boat, with all on board who were disabled by sickness; that there were but a few days’ provisions left; that the master appeared entirely irresolute, which way to go; that for themselves they had eaten nothing for three days.  Their only hope therefore was in taking command of the ship, and escaping from these regions as quickly as possible.

“I remonstrated with them in the most earnest manner, entreating them to abandon such a wicked intention.  But all I could say had no effect.  It was decided that the plot should be put into execution at daylight.  In the meantime Green went into Hudson’s cabin to keep him company, and to prevent his suspicions from being excited.  They had determined to put the carpenter and John King into the boat with Hudson and the sick, having some grudge against them for their attachment to the master.  King and the carpenter had slept on deck this night, but about daybreak, King was observed to go down into the hold with the cook, who was going for water.  Some of the mutineers ran and shut down the hatch over them, while Green and another engaged the attention of the carpenter, so that he did not observe what was going on.

“Hudson now came from the cabin and was immediately seized by Thomas and Bennet, the cook, who had come up from the hold, while Wilson ran behind and bound his arms.  He asked them what they meant, and they told him that he would know when he was in the shallop.  Hudson called upon the carpenter to help him, telling him that he was bound.  But he could render