a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1576. 



hee perceived that the coast bowed directly towards the 



East, or else the Sea opened into the land he could not 



A perfect de- tell how farre, where he was compelled to stay until he 



MtscoZfzT had a westerne winde, or somewhat upon the North, and 



age ™ sayled thence directly East alongst the coast, so farre as 



hee was able in foure dayes, where he was againe inforced 



to tary untill hee had a North winde, because the coast 



there bowed directly towards the South, or at least 



opened he knew not howe farre into the land, so that he 



sayled thence along the coast continually full South, so 



farre as he could travell in the space of five dayes, where 



hee discovered a mighty river, which opened farre into 



the land, and in the entrie of this river he turned 



backe againe. 



Whereby it appeareth that he went the very same way, 



that we now doe yerely trade by S. Nicholas into Mos- 



covia, which way no man in our age knew for certaintie 



By Sir Hugh to be by sea, until it was since discovered by our English 



Zu^cL- men > in the time ° f Kin S Edward the sixt ; but thought 

 ce/foranJ a} before that time that Groneland had joyned to Normoria, 

 Borough. Byarmia, &c. and therefore was accompted a new dis- 

 covery, being nothing so indeede, as by this discourse 

 of Ochther it appeareth. 



Neverthelesse if any man should have taken this 

 voyage in hand by the encouragement of this onely 

 author, he should have bene thought but simple: con- 

 sidering that this Navigation was written so many yeres 

 past, in so barbarous a tongue by one onely obscure 

 author, and yet we in these our dayes finde by our owne 

 experiences his former reports to be true. 



How much more then ought we to beleeve this 

 passage to Cataia to bee, being verified by the opinions 

 of all the best, both Antique, and Moderne Geographers, 

 and plainely set out in the best and most allowed 

 Mappes, Charts, Globes, Cosmographical tables & dis- 

 courses of this our age, and by the rest not denied, but 

 left as a matter doubtfull. 



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