a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1576. 

 This discovery It hath bene attempted by Sebastian Cabota in the 

 attempted. t [ me Q f kj n g Henry the seventh, by Corterialis the Portu- 



gall, and Scolmus the Dane. 

 This discovery And it hath bene performed by three brethren, the 

 performed. Indians aforesaid, and by Urdaneta the Frier of Mexico. 

 Also divers have offered the like unto the French 

 king, who hath sent two or three times to have dis- 

 covered the same : The discoverers spending and con- 

 suming their victuals in searching the gulfes and bayes 

 betweene Florida and Terra de Labrador, whereby the 

 yce is broken to the after commers. 



So that the right way may now easily be found out 

 in short time : and that with litle jeoperdie and lesse 

 expences. 



For America is discovered so farre towardes the North 



as Cape Frio, which is at 62 degrees, and that part of 



Grondland next adjoyning is knowen to stand but at 



The labour of y 2 degrees. So that wee have but 10 degrees to saile 



fLmeTb™ N ° rth & S ° Uth > tC> P Ut the WOrld OUt ° f d ° ubt hereof : 



other mens an( ^ lt IS likely that the king of Spaine, and the king 



travel!. of Portugall would not have sit out all this while, but 



that they are sure to possesse to themselves all that 



trade they now use, and feare to deale in this discovery, 



least the Queenes Majestie having so good opportunitie, 



and finding the commoditie which thereby might ensue 



to the common wealth, would cut them off, and enjoy 



Why ye kings the whole traffique to her selfe, and thereby the Spaniards 



toftu™ dnd and P° rtu g als > witn tneir g reat charges, should beate the 



zvouldnot bush, and other men catch the birds : which thing they 



persever in foreseeing, have commanded that no pilot of theirs upon 



this discovery, paine of death, should seeke to discover to the Northwest, 



or plat out in any Sea card any thorow passage that way 



by the Northwest. 



Now, and if you will indifferently compare the hope 

 that remaineth, to animate me to this enterprise, with 

 those likelihoods which Columbus alleaged before Ferdi- 

 nando the king of Castilia, to proove that there were 

 such Islands in the West Ocean, as were after by him 



