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a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1576. 



To proove that the Indians aforenamed, came 

 only by the Northwest, which induceth a 

 certaintie of our passage by experience. 



Cap. 7. 



T is as likely that they came by the Northwest, as 

 it is unlikely that they should come either by the 

 Southeast, Southwest, Northeast, or from any other part 

 of Africa or America, and therefore this Northwest 

 passage having bene alreadie so many wayes proved, by 

 disprooving of the others, &c. I shall the lesse neede 

 in this place, to use many words otherwise then to 

 conclude in this sort, That they came onely by the 

 Northwest from England, having these many reasons to 

 leade me thereunto. 



1 First, the one halfe of the windes of the compasse 



might bring them by the Northwest, bearing alwayes 



betweene two sheats, with which kind of sayling the 



Indians are onely acquainted, not having any use of a 



bow line, or quarter winde, without the which no ship 



can possibly come either by the Southeast, Southwest 



or Northeast, having so many sundry Capes to double, 



whereunto are required such change and shift of windes. 



True, both^ in 2 And it seemeth likely that they should come by 



v * ntls Clique fa e Northwest, because the coast whereon they were 



'also inventis driven, lay East from this our passage, And all windes 



ex dlametro doe naturally drive a ship to an opposite point from 



spirantibus. whence it bloweth, not being otherwise guided by Arte, 



which the Indians do utterly want, & therefore it 



seemeth that they came directly through this our fret, 



which they might doe with one wind. 



3 For if they had come by the Cape de buona 

 Speranca, then must they (as aforesaid) have fallen upon 

 the South parts of America. 



4 And if by the fret of Magellan, then upon the 

 coasts of Afrike, Spaine, Portugal!, France, Ireland or 

 England. 



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