THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE a.d. 



1576. 



5 Also while Frederic Barbarossa reigned Emperour, Avouched by 



Anno Do. 11 60. there came certaine other Indians upon F ™nciscusLo- 

 ^ c r> pes de Gomara 



the coast of Germanie ; mtoUamU 



6 Likewise Othon in the stone of the Gothes amrmeth, f India, lib. 

 that in the time of the Germane Emperours, there were 1. cap. 10. 

 also certaine Indians cast by force of weather, upon the 



coast of the sayd countrey, which foresaid Indians could 

 not possibly have come by the Southeast, Southwest, nor 

 from any part of Afrike or America, nor yet by the 

 Northeast : therefore they came of necessitie by this our 

 Northwest passage. 



To proove that these Indians aforenamed came 

 not by the Southeast, Southwest, nor from 

 any other part of Afrike, or America. 



Cap. 5. 



First, they could not come from the Southeast by the 

 Cape de bona Speranca, because the roughnes of the 

 Seas there is such (occasioned by the currents and great 

 winds in that part) that the greatest Armadas the king 

 of Portugal hath, cannot without great difficulty passe 

 that way, much lesse then a Canoa of India could live 

 in those outragious seas without shipwracke (being a 

 vessell of very small burden) and have conducted them- 

 selves to the place aforesayd, being men unexpert in the 

 Arte of navigation. 



2 Also, it appeareth plainely that they were not able 

 to come from alongst the coast of Afrike aforesayd, to 

 those parts of Europe, because the winds doe (for the 

 most part) blow there Easterly off from the shore, and 

 the current running that way in like sort, should have 

 driven them Westward upon some part of America : for 

 such winds and tides could never have led them from 

 thence to the said place where they were found, nor yet 

 could they have come from any of the countries afore- 

 sayd, keeping the seas alwayes, without skilful mariners 



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