THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE a.d. 



1576. 



5 And if by the Northeast, then upon the coasts of 

 Ceremissi, Tartarii, Lappia, Island, Terra de Labrador, 

 &c. and upon these coasts (as aforesaid) they have 

 never bene found. 



So that by all likelihood they could never have come 

 without shipwracke upon the coastes of Germanie, if 

 they had first striken upon the coastes of so many 

 countries, wanting both Arte and shipping to make 

 orderly discovery, and altogether ignorant both in the 

 Arte of Navigation, and also of the Rockes, Flats, 

 Sands or Havens of those parts of the world, which in 

 most of these places are plentifull. 



6 And further it seemeth very likely, that the in- 

 habitants of the most part of those countries, by which 

 they must have come any other way besides by the 

 Northwest, being for the most part Anthropophagi, or 

 men eaters, would have devoured them, slaine them, 

 or (at the least wise) kept them as wonders for the 

 gaze. 



So that it plainely appeareth that those Indians 

 (which as you have heard in sundry ages were driven 

 by tempest upon the shore of Germanie) came onely 

 through our Northwest passage. 



7 Moreover, the passage is certainely prooved by a 

 Navigation that a Portugall made, who passed through 

 this fret, giving name to a Promontorie farre within 

 the same, calling it after his owne name, Promontorium 

 Corterialis, neere adjoyning unto Polisacus fluvius. 



8 Also one Scolmus a Dane entred and passed a 

 great part thereof. 



9 Also there was one Salvaterra, a Gentleman of 

 Victoria in Spaine, that came by chance out of the 

 West Indias into Ireland, Anno 1568. who affirmed 

 the Northwest passage from us to Cataia, constantly to 

 be beleeved in America navigable. And further said in 

 the presence of sir Henry Sidney (then lord Deputie 

 of Ireland) in my hearing, that a Frier of Mexico, 

 called Andrew Urdaneta, more then eight yeeres before 



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