Robert Bylot

Later there was a mutiny in which Hudson, his son and several sailors were set adrift in an open boat in James Bay.

It was due to Bylot's navigational skills that Discovery was able to return from the Arctic safely; Hudson and his party were never seen again.

[4] The following year, the Muscovy Company again hired Bylot and Baffin to continue to search for the Northwest Passage.

"[5] When the bay was "rediscovered" by Sir John Ross in 1818, the records of the Bylot–Baffin voyage proved extremely accurate.

[5] Historian Farley Mowat speculated two possible reasons for this: Bylot's lack of education and lower position relative to Baffin in English society, and his involvement in the mutiny during Hudson's expedition.

a map of the voyage undertaken by Thomas James in 1631-1632, showing clearly the approximate shape and size of Baffin Bay based on Bylot's voyage. The geographic features, including the approximate location of Lancaster Sound , are broadly accurate.