. Récit de la découverte et l'aventure dans les mers polaires et les régions [microforme] : avec des illustrations de leur climat, de la géologie, et l'histoire naturelle ; et d'un compte de la pêche des baleines. Histoire naturelle ; sciences naturelles. 7 &gt ; EA:U nord-ouest de l'VOYAGESr 203 événements, qu'il n'a pas profité des moyens par lesquels il pourrait avoir tenté de vérifier l'horrible mutinerie. Mais, d'autre part, il est probable que, s'il avait été un agent actif dans le crime, certains de ses complices auraient trahi, ou, si leur culpabilité mutuelle liés les uns aux autres, certains histoire aurait été invente

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. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history ; and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 7 > EA:UY north-west VOYAGESr 203 events, that he did not avail himself of the means by which he might have attempted to check the horrible mutiny. But, on the other hand, it is probable that, had he been an active agent in the crime, some of his accomplices would have betrayed him, or, had their mutual guilt bound them to each other, some story would have been invented to palliate or conceal the offence ; whereas it is set forth by his narrative in all its atrocity. Notwithstanding the calamitous issue of this voyage, the discovery thereby made of a great sea in the west seemed to justify the most flattering hopes of accom- plishing a passage. To follow out this object. Captain, afterwards Sir Thomas Button, was despatched next year (1612), having Bylot and Pricket as guides. This officer, who seems to have been active as well as resolute, soon made his way through the Straits, and pushing directly across the sea that opened to the westward, came in view of an insular cape, caUed by him Carey's Swan's Nest, and which afterwards proved to be the most southern point of Southampton Island. Nothing else broke the apparent continuity of the ocean, and there- fore he cherished sanguine hopes that the first shore he should see would be that of Japan. Suddenly an an- nouncement was made that land was in sight, when there appeared before him an immense range of coas*, stretching north and south, and barring all farther pro- gress. Button, deeply disappointed, gave to it the name of Hope Checked. Before he had time to look for an opening, the gloom of the northern winter began to gather, when it behoved him to seek quarters for the season; and these he found in the same creek, which afterwards became the principal settlement of the Hud- son's Bay Com

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