THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE a.d. 



1576. 



The lift objection requireth for answere wisedome and So/. 5. 

 policie in the travailer, to winne the Barbarians favour 

 by some good meanes : and so to arme and strengthen 

 himselfe, that when he shal have the repulse in one coast, 

 he may safely travaile to an other, commodiously taking 

 his convenient times, and discreetely making choise of 

 them with whom hee will throughly deale. To force a 

 violent entry, would for us Englishmen be very hard, 

 considering the strength and valour of so great a Nation, 

 farre distant from us, and the attempt thereof might be 

 most perillous unto the doers, unlesse their part were 

 very good. 



Touching their lawes against strangers, you shall reade 

 neverthelesse in the same relations of Galeotto Perera, 

 that the Cathaian king is woont to graunt free accesse 

 unto all forreiners that trade into his Countrey for Mar- 

 chandise, and a place of libertie for them to remaine in : 

 as the Moores had, untill such time as they had brought 

 the Loutea or Lieutenant of that coast to bee a circum- 

 cised Saracene : wherefore some of them were put to the 

 sword, the rest were scattered abroad : at Fuquien a great 

 citie in China, certaine of them are yet this day to be 

 seene. As for the Japans they be most desirous to be 

 acquainted with strangers. The Portingals though they 

 were straitly handled there at the first, yet in the ende 

 they found great favour at the Prince his hands, insomuch 

 that the Loutea or president that misused them was there- 

 fore put to death. The rude Indian Canoa halleth those 

 seas, the Portingals, the Saracenes, and Moores travaile 

 continually up and downe that reach from Japan to China, 

 from China to Malacca, from Malacca to the Moluccaes : 

 and shall an Englishman, better appointed then any of 

 them all (that I say no more of our Navie) feare to saile 

 in that Ocean ? What seas at all doe want piracie ? 

 what Navigation is there voyde of perill ? 



To the last argument. Our travailers neede not to Sol. 6. 

 seeke their returne by the Northeast, neither shall they 

 be constrained, except they list, either to attempt 



