pany were jealous of Greene, and of the favoritism with which the captain treated him, Some of their complaints were based on grounds which would seem to be of an extremely frivolous character, but the animosity and hatred which they engendered were none the less decided on that account. One of the most violent of the disputes and altercations which occurred commenced in a difficulty that arose out of the disposition made of the clothes of a sailor who had died, particularly of a certain gray cloth gown.

THE GUNNER'S GRAY CLOTH GOWN.

The gunner died, and among the effects that he left was a gray gown or jacket. It was the custom to sell the clothes and other property of the sailors dying at sea in those days, at the foot of the mainmast, to the highest bidder, and many of the crew were desirous of purchasing the gown. But the captain, in the exercise of his favoritism, forestalled them by making a bargain with Greene for it, at private sale. This, of course, greatly incensed all the rest of the company. They loudly complained of the injustice of the proceeding, and the whole ship was full of the criminations and recriminations of the different parties to the quarrel. It was amazing that such a quarrel could arise

from an occurrence like this in a ship's company already in a condition of the deepest distress, and with the horrors of actual starvation closely impending over them.

THE CAPTAIN QUARRELS WITH GREENE.

After exciting the enmity of all the rest under his command by his undue partiality for Greene, the captain ended by quarreling with Greene himself, so as in effect to cut himself off almost entirely from the friendly feeling and sympathy of his men.

He had a difficulty with the carpenter about building a hut on shore. After hesitating and delaying a long time, he had finally concluded, when all hope of returning to England for the season was gone, to undertake this work, and he gave orders to the carpenter accordingly. The carpenter said it was now too late. The weather was so cold and stormy that it would be impossible to manage such work. He could not and he would not undertake building in the midst of so much frost and snow. When Captain Hudson heard this reply he abused the carpenter in the most violent manner. He pulled him out of his cabin to beat him, and threatened to hang him. The carpenter answered that he knew his own business, and that

Hudson was the captain of the ship, not the carpenter. The captain went away in a rage.

The next day the carpenter was going on shore, and as the rule was that no one should go on shore alone, Henry Greene went with him as his comrade and friend. This the captain considered as a token and sign that Greene was disposed to take sides with the carpenter against him, and this caused him to turn the current of his anger from the carpenter to Greene. He declared that, after all, Greene should not have the gray jacket. Greene urged the captain's promise. The captain replied with bitter vituperation. He told Greene that he was a worthless fellow, and that the best friends he had in the world would not trust him for twenty shillings, and he did not see why he should be expected to give him credit any more than they.

THE MUTINY.

It would make a very long story to relate in full the gradual progress of insubordination and contention which ensued, and to describe the successive steps by which this wretched crew sank into those fearful depths of distress and misery which the continual increase of cold and hunger and their own terrible quarrels brought upon them.

The end was, that after passing through scenes of violence and suffering too dreadful to be described, a portion of the crew, headed by Greene, formed a conspiracy to put the captain, and with him all the sick and dying men on board the ship, eight in number, into a boat and leave them in the open sea, while they themselves attempted to make their way to England. tó

The scene presented on board the vessel when the mutineers rose to carry this scheme into effect, and were engaged in putting the men on board the boat, was horrible in the extreme. Some of their victims submitted quietly in silent despair. Others resisted with all the strength that remained to them, making frantic efforts and uttering piercing cries. Two of the wretched men had friends among the crew, who endeavored to make their cases exceptions, and this led to violent disputes among the mutineers themselves, some declaring that these men should not go, others swearing with horrid imprecations that they should go, and offering to fight, if necessary, in order to carry their determination into effect.

Captain Hudson, who had been seized and secured at the outset, had his hands tied behind him, and was compelled to submit helplessly to whatever his reckless enemies chose to do.

THE LAST THAT WAS EVER KNOWN OF CAPTAIN HUDSON.

When all the men were put on board the boat, the boat itself was dropped astern, and there taken in tow by the ship and conveyed, with its dreadful burden of suffering and despair, out of the bay or harbor where these events had taken place. Then she was cut loose, and the ship sailed on, leaving her to her fate.

The mutineers did not abandon the party in the boat in this manner with the bare and naked intention of murdering them. They considered that they were giving them at least a chance for their lives. They furnished them with some small supply of provisions, and the boat was fitted with a sail. They might possibly find a refuge among the natives somewhere upon the coast for a time, and finally be saved by some other European vessel visiting those shores. Or, even if they followed the ship to sea, they might there meet with some other vessel by which they might be rescued.

One of the men who was to go in the boat, in fact, just before he was put into it, begged one of those on board the ship to say to the natives at a certain place on the coast, where the ship was to stop in hopes of obtaining provisions, before finally