In 1611, Henry Hudson ventured into Hudson Bay, encountering storms, icebergs and a group of Inuit people whom his men called "troglodytes." According to Hudson's account, these troglodytes were giants, throwing rocks down at the ship from the steep cliffs, some boulders so large that they required twenty men to lift them. Modern scholars believe this story to most likely be an embellished retelling of a minor conflict between Hudson's men and the Inuit.
