a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1576. 



To proove by circumstance that the Northwest 

 passage hath bene sayled throughout. 



Chap. 4. 



Quinque r i ^ e diversitie betweene bruite beastes and men, or 



sensus. j^ betweene the wise and the simple is, that the one 



2 Auditm. j u dgeth by sense onely, and gathereth no surety of any 



3 Olfactus. thing that he hath not seene, felt, heard, tasted, or 



4 Gustus. smelled : And the other not so onely, but also findeth 

 i. aa , us : the certaintie of things by reason, before they happen 

 sensu wtiver- to ^ e tryed. Wherefore I have added proofes of both 

 salia verb sorts, that the one and the other might thereby be 

 mente perci- satisfied. 



ptuntur. j pj rst) as Gemma Frisius reciteth, there went from 



Europe three brethren through this passage : whereof 

 it tooke the name of Fretum trium fratrum. 



2 Also Plinie affirmeth out of Cornelius Nepos, 

 (who wrote 57 yeeres before Christ) that there were 

 certaine Indians driven by tempest, upon the coast 

 of Germanie which were presented by the king of 

 Suevia, unto Quintus Metellus Celer, the Proconsull of 

 France. 



Lib.z.cap.66. 3 And Plinie upon the same sayth, that it is no marvell 

 though there be Sea by the North, where there is such 

 abundance of moisture : which argueth that hee doubted 

 not of a navigable passage that way, through which 

 those Indians came. 



4 And for the better proofe that the same authoritie of 

 Cornelius Nepos is not by me wrested, to prove my 

 opinion of the Northwest passage : you shall finde the 

 same affirmed more plainly in that behalfe, by the 

 excellent Geographer Dominicus Marius Niger, who 



Pag. 590. sheweth how many wayes the Indian sea stretcheth it 

 selfe, making in that place recital of certaine Indians, 

 that were likewise driven through the North Seas from 



[III. 17.] India, upon the coastes of Germany, by great tempest, 

 as they were sayling in trade of marchandize. 



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