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THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



beyond those Hands unto the Latitude of 67. degrees 

 and an halfe, under the North pole, and at the 1 1 . day 

 of June finding still the open Sea without any maner of 

 impediment, he thought verily by that way to have passed 

 on still the way to Cathaia, which is in the East, and 

 would have done it, if the mutinie of the shipmaster and 

 Mariners had not hindered him and made him to returne 

 homewards from that place. But it seemeth that God 

 doeth yet still reserve this great enterprise for some great 

 prince to discover this voyage of Cathaia by this way, 

 which for the bringing of the Spiceries from India into 

 Europe, were the most easie and shortest of all other 

 wayes hitherto found out. And surely this enterprise 

 would be the most glorious, and of most importance 

 of all other that can be imagined to make his name great, 

 and fame immortall, to all ages to come, farre more then 

 can be done by any of all these great troubles and warres 

 which dayly are used in Europe among the miserable 

 Christian people. 



Another testimonie of the voyage of Sebastian 

 Cabot to the West and Northwest, taken out 

 of the sixt Chapter of the third Decade of 

 Peter Martyr of Angleria. 



Crutatus est oras glaciales Sebastianus 

 quidam Cabotus genere Venetus, sed a 

 parentibus in Britanniam insulam ten- 

 dentibus (uti moris est Venetorum, qui 

 commercii causa terrarum omnium sunt 

 hospites) transportatus pene infans. Duo 

 is sibi navigia, propria pecunia in Brit- 

 annia ipsa instruxit, & primo tendens cum hominibus 

 tercentum ad Septentrionem donee etiam Julio mense 

 vastas repererit glaciales moles pelago natantes, & lucem 

 fere perpetuam, tellure tamen libera, gelu liquefacto : 

 quare coactus fuit, uti ait, vela vertere & occidentem 

 sequi : tetenditque tantum ad meridiem littore sese in- 



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