>>2696129Written historical record ends there for Hudson, although Inuit oral tradition maintained for over two centuries tell of and old man, a boy, and two crazy men arriving at a seaside village in dire straits. The old man (presumably Hudson) died quickly of waste and disease, and the two crazy men were said to have murdered each other on shore. The Inuit were so perplexed as to what to do with this possibly diseased boy that they kept him leashed to a tree outdoors like an animal until he died of exposure at the end of the rope, likely naked and frozen.
The crew got back to England and were immediately put on trial for mutiny and possibly murder. None of them were executed and they eventually were all released, not because they were innocent of mutiny and murder, but because they were the only living souls to hold the maps and knowledge of Hudson's bay and the possible Northwest Passage.
Nightmares and suffering all round, but once again the interests of Big Exploration win over justice.
