ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1576. 



cold killed you not) each man of reason or understanding 



may judge. 

 Some doubt of 2 Also Mangia, Quinzai, and the Molucca? are neerer 

 this. unto us by t k e Northwest, then by the Northeast, more 



then two five parts, which is almost by the halfe. 



3 Also we may have by the West a yerely returne, 

 it being at all times navigable, whereas you have but 

 4. moneths in the whole yeere to goe by the Northeast : 

 the passage being at such elevation as it is formerly ex- 

 pressed, for it cannot be any neerer the South. 



4 Furthermore, it cannot be finished without divers 

 wintrings by the way, having no havens in any temperate 

 climate to harbour in there : for it is as much as we ca.i 

 well saile from hence to S. Nicholas, in the trade cf 

 Moscovia, and returne in the navigable season of the 

 yeere, & from S. Nicholas to Cerimissi Tartari, which, 

 stande at 80 degrees of the Septentrionall latitude, it :s 

 at the least 400 leagues, which amounteth scarce to the 

 third part of the way, to the end of your voyage by 

 the Northeast. 



5 And yet after you have doubled this Cape, if thei 

 there might be found a navigable Sea to carie you South- 

 east according to your desire, yet can you not winter 

 conveniently, until you come to 60 degrees, and to take 

 up one degree running Southeast, you must saile 24 

 leagues and three foure parts, which amounteth to 495 

 leagues. 



6 Furthermore, you may by the Northwest saile 

 thither with all Easterly windes, and returne with any 

 Westerly windes, whereas you must have by the North- 

 east sundry windes, and those proper, according to the 

 lying of the coast and Capes, you shalbe inforced to 

 double, which windes are not alwaies to be had, when 

 they are looked for : whereby your journey should be 

 greatly prolonged, and hardly endured so neere the Pole. 

 As we are taught by sir Hugh Willoughbie, who was 

 frozen to death farre neerer the South. 



7 Moreover, it is very doubtfull, whether we should 



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