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they have returned, as did that great navigator 

 Gavot (Cabot) more than forty years ago." 



" And on a globe which this English pilot had, 

 (of which a copy was made in China,) these two 

 routes, by which they attempted to pass, are dis- 

 tinctly seen ;* and also, in their proper latitudes, 

 the islands of Japan, with all their kingdoms, even 

 to the land of Chincungu, where the rich silver 

 mines are said to be." 



** This pilot added, that when the Prince of 

 Orange found that he could not effect the passage 

 by those northern regions, he equipped the fifteen 

 ships, along with which he had sailed."! 



It may be observed, that Couto resided in India 

 upwards of forty years, and there wrote his 

 Decadas ; he could therefore know nothing more 

 of the attempts to discover a northern passage to 

 India than what he heard from report. 



* We have seen that the track of Davis was laid down on the 

 globes made by Emery INIullineux, many years before Adams 

 left England. 



t Diogo de Couto, Decad. xii. Chap. 2. 



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