a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1576. 



towards the Southeast, finding no end of the Sea : 



whereby he hoped a thorow passage to be that way. 



The answer or Whereunto I answered, that the Tartarians were a 



resolution. barbarous people, and utterly ignorant in the Arte of 



Navigation, not knowing the use of the Sea Card, 



Compasse or Starre, which he confessed to be true : and 



therfore they could not (said I) certainly know the 



Southeast from the Northeast, in a wide sea, and a place 



unknowen from the sight of the land. 



Or if he sailed any thing neere the shore, yet he 



(being ignorant) might be deceived by the doubling of 



many points and Capes, and by the trending of the 



land, albeit he kept continually alongst the shore. 



And further, it might be that the poore Fisherman 



through simplicitie thought that there was nothing that 



Visus nonnuv- wa y but sea, because he saw no land : which proofe 



quam falhtur ( unc [ er correction) giveth small assurance of a Navigable 



sea by the Northeast, to goe round about the world. 



For that he judged by the eye onely, seeing we in this 



our cleare aire doe account twentie miles a ken at Sea. 



The second His second reason is, that there was an Unicornes 



reason or atie- home f ounc | U p G n the coast of Tartaria, which could 



not come (said he) thither by any other meanes then 



with the tides, through some fret in the Northeast of 



Mare Glaciale, there being no Unicorne in any part of 



Asia, saving in India and Cataia : which reason (in my 



simple judgement) forceth as litle. 



The answer or First, it is doubtfull whether those barbarous Tar- 



resohtion. • j 1 tt ■ i. j 



tanans do know an Unicornes home, yea, or no: and 



if it were one, yet it is not credible that the Sea could 



have driven it so farre, being of such nature that it will 



not swimme. 



[III. 21.] Also the tides running too and fro, would have driven 



it as farre backe with the ebbe, as it brought it forward 



with the flood. 



There is also a beast called Asinus Indicus (whose 



home most like it was) which hath but one home like 



an Unicorne in his forehead, whereof there is great 



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