Henry Hudson

Henry Hudson: A Brief Statement of His Aims and His Achievements is a book by Thomas A. Janvier. The title page adds a newly-discovered partial record, now first published, of the trial of the mutineers by whom Hudson and others were abandoned to their death. The contents list gives Part I as A Brief Life of Henry Hudson in chapters I to XIV, and Part II as Newly-discovered Documents.

The brief life says Henry Hudson, having headed his ship upon an ordered course northeastward, traversed his orders by fetching that compass to the southwestward, which ended by bringing him into what now is Hudson's River. The brief life says Hudson's voyage through Hudson's Strait ended, for him, in his mutineering crew casting him adrift to starve with cold and hunger in Hudson's Bay. A quoted passage says that Prickett's account of the mutiny and of its cause has often been suspected, yet that Prickett is the only eye-witness that has left an account of these events. A passage names Sidrach Fanner, Adrian Moore and John Ladley, among others, mariners of the Discovery, as put out of the ship by force into the Shallop.