THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE ad 



1576. 



4 And I found that Franciscus Lopez de Gomara 

 affirmeth America to be an Island, and likewise Gronland : 

 and that Gronland is distant from Lappia 40 leagues, 

 and from Terra de Labrador, 50. 



5 Moreover, Alvarus Nunnius a Spaniard, and learned 

 Cosmographer, and Jacobus Cartier, who made two 

 voyages into those parts, and sayled 900 miles upon 

 the Northeast coastes of America doe in part confirme 

 the same. 



6 Likewise Hieronymus Fracastorius, a learned Italian, 

 and travailer in the North parts of the same land. 



7 Also Jaques Cartier having done the like, heard 

 say at Hochelaga in Nova Francia, how that there was 

 a great Sea at Saguinay, whereof the end was not 

 knowen : which they presupposed to be the passage to 

 Cataia. 



Furthermore, Sebastian Cabota by his personal ex- Written in the 

 perience and travel hath set foorth, and described this (i ^ cour J e ^ °f 

 passage in his Charts, which are yet to be seene in the 

 Queens Majesties privie Gallerie at Whitehall, who was 

 sent to make this discovery by king Henrie the seventh, 

 and entred the same fret : affirming that he sayled very 

 farre Westward, with a quarter of the North, on the 

 Northside of Terra de Labrador the eleventh of June, 

 untill he came to the Septentrionall latitude of 67 degrees 

 and a halfe, and finding the Seas still open, sayd, that 

 he might, & would have gone to Cataia, if the mutinie 

 of the Master and Mariners had not bene. 



Now as these mens experience hath proved some part 

 of this passage: so the chapter following shal put you 

 in full assurance of the rest, by their experiences which 

 have passed through every part thereof. 



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