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to have conducted them such like courses as were 

 necessary to performe such a voiage. 



3 Presupposing also, if they had bene driven to the 

 West (as they must have bene, commi ng that way) then 

 they should have perished, wanting supplie of victuals, 

 not having any place (once leaving the coast of Afrike) 

 untill they came to America, nor from America untill 

 they arrived upon some part of Europe, or the Islands 

 adjoyning to it, to have refreshed themselves. 



4 Also, if (notwithstanding such impossibilities) they 

 might have recovered Germanie by comming from India 

 by the Southeast, yet must they without all doubt have 

 striken upon some other part of Europe before their 

 arrivall there, as the Isles of the Acores, Portugal, Spaine, 

 France, England, Ireland, &c. which if they had done, it 

 is not credible that they should or would have departed 

 undiscovered of the inhabitants : but there was never 

 found in those dayes any such ship or men but only 

 upon the coasts of Germanie, where they have bene sundry 

 times and in sundry ages cast aland : neither is it like 

 that they would have committed themselves againe to sea, 

 if they had so arrived, not knowing where they were, nor 

 whither to have gone. 



This fift 5 And by the Southwest it is unpossible, because the 



reason by later curren t aforesayd which commeth from the East, striketh 



prove/uttlrh w * tn sucn f° rce upon the fret of Magellan, and falleth 



untrue. with such swiftnesse and furie into Mar del Zur, that 



hardly any ship (but not possibly a Canoa, with such 



unskilfull mariners) can come into our Westerne Ocean 



through that fret, from the West seas of America, as 



Magellans experience hath partly taught us. 



6 And further, to proove that these people so arriving 



upon the coast of Germany, were Indians, & not in- 



That the habiters of any part either of Africa or America, it is 



Indians could manifest, because the natives both of Africa and America 



1 be natives ne j t h e r had, or have at this day (as is reported) other 



either of 



kind of boates then such as do beare neither mastes nor 



Africa, or of 



America. sailes, (except onely upon the coasts of Barbarie and the 



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