ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1576. 



of those, which have sailed wholy, thorow every part 

 thereof. 



To prove by experience of sundry mens travels, 

 the opening of some part of this Northwest 

 passage : wherby good hope remaineth of the 

 rest. 



Chap. 3. 



PAulus Venetus, who dwelt many yeres in Cataia, 

 affirmed that hee sayled 1 500 miles upon the coastes 

 of Mangia, and Anian, towards the Northeast : alwayes 

 finding the Seas open before him, not onely as farre 

 as he went, but also as farre as he could discerne. 



2 Also Franciscus Vasques de Coronado passing from 



Mexico by Cevola, through the countrey of Quivira, to 



Siera Nevada, found there a great sea, where were certaine 



[III. 16.] ships laden with Merchandise, carrying on their prowes 



Alcatrarxi be the pictures of certaine birds called Alcatrarzi, part whereof 



Pelltcanes. W ere made of golde, and part of silver, who signified by 



signes, that they were thirty dayes comming thither : 



which likewise proveth America by experience to be dis- 



joyned from Cataia, on that part by a great Sea, because 



they could not come from any part of America, as Natives 



thereof: for that, so farre as is discovered, there hath not 



bene found there any one Shippe of that countrey. 



Baros lib. 9. 3 In like maner, John Baros testifieth that the Cosmo- 



Of his first graphers of China (where he himselfe had bene) affirme 



ls ca P- '• tnat tne 5 ea coas t: trendeth from thence Northeast, to 



50 degrees of Septentrional latitude, being the furthest 



part that way which the Portugals had then knowledge of: 



And that the said Cosmographers knew no cause to the 



contrary, but that it might continue further. 



By whose experiences America is prooved to be separate 

 from those parts of Asia, directly against the same. And 

 not contented with the judgements of these learned men 

 only, I have searched what might be further sayd for 

 the confirmation hereof. 



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