A.D. 



II70. 



Hum/, Lloyd. 



The second 

 voyage of Ma- 

 doc the sonne of 

 Owen 

 Guyneth. 



Gomara. lib. 

 2. cap. 16. 



M. Pozvels 

 addition. 



Gutyn Owe?i. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



certaine ships, with men and munition, and sought adven- 

 tures by Seas, sailing West, and leaving the coast of 

 Ireland so farre North, that he came unto a land un- 

 knowen, where he saw many strange things. 



This land must needs be some part of that Countrey 

 of which the Spanyards affirme themselves to be the 

 first finders since Hannos time. Whereupon it is 

 manifest that that countrey was by Britaines discovered, 

 long before Columbus led any Spanyards thither. 



Of the voyage and returne of this Madoc there be 

 many fables fained, as the common people doe use in 

 distance of place and length of time rather to augment 

 then to diminish : but sure it is there he was. And after 

 he had returned home, and declared the pleasant and 

 fruitfull countreys that he had seene without inhabitants, 

 and upon the contrary part, for what barren & wild 

 ground his brethren and nephewes did murther one 

 another, he prepared a number of ships, and got with 

 him such men and women as were desirous to live in 

 quietnesse : and taking leave of his friends, tooke his 

 journey thitherward againe. Therefore it is to be sup- 

 posed that he and his people inhabited part of those 

 countreys : for it appeareth by Francis Lopez de Gomara, 

 that in Acuzamil and other places the people honored 

 the crosse. Wherby it may be gathered that Christians 

 had bene there before the comming of the Spanyards. 

 But because this people were not many, they followed the 

 maners of the land which they came unto, & used the 

 language they found there. 



This Madoc arriving in the Westerne country, unto 

 the which he came in the yere 11 70, left most of his 

 people there, and returning backe for more of his owne 

 nation, acquaintance & friends to inhabit that faire & 

 large countrey, went thither againe with ten sailes, as 

 I find noted by Gutyn Owen. I am of opinion that the 

 land whereunto he came was some part of the West 

 Indies. 



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