a Hudson update

I've just read today that there is evidence to suggest that Henry Hudson and the eight crew members of his ship Discovery that were cast adrift on Hudson's Bay may have survived the ordeal, for a bit anyway.

The next year, 1612, Samuel de Champlain sent out one of his countrymen named de Vignau to winter with a group of Cree Indians. While there Vignau claimed that he had saw the wreckage of an English boat and heard a story that eight men were killed for trying to steal their food and supplies. The ninth, the youngest of the group, John, Hudson's son, was spared.

Vignau later recanted his story as evidence came to light suggesting that he did live not with the specific group of Cree as he had claimed . Nonethelss, it is plausible that he heard some version of the story somewhere, particularly as Vignau was unaware of Hudson's fate. Indeed, the facts of the mutiny and Vignau's story match.