NICHOLAS AND ANTONIO ZENO a.d. 



c. 1380-90. 

 forth, and being upon the maine sea, there arose im- 

 mediately a cruel tempest, wherwith for eight dayes space 

 we were miserably vexed, not knowing where we were: [III. 126.] 

 & a great part of the barks were cast away, afterward the 

 weather waxing faire, we gathered up the broken peices 

 of the barks that were lost, and sayling with a prosperous 

 winde we discovered land at West. Wherefore keeping ZicAmni his 



our course directly upon it, we arrived in a good and dtsco * e ™ °f 



r , , Li • r ■ & . r the Island 



sate harborough, where we saw an innnit companie of j car ^ 



people ready in armes, come running very furiously to 



the water side, as it were for defence of the Island. 



Wherfore Zichmni causing his men to make signes of 



peace unto them, they sent 10 men unto us that could 



speake ten languages, but we could understand none of 



them, except one that was of Island. He being brought 4n Island 



before our prince and asked, what was the name of the man in lcaru 



Island, and what people inhabited it, & who governed 



it, answered, that the Island was called Icaria, and that all 



the kings that reigned there, were called Icari, after the The kings of 



name of the first king of that place, which as they say was I 1 carm c " lled 



the sonne of Dedalus king of Scotland, v/ho conquered nameo f t he 



that Island, left his sonne there for king, and left them first king of 



those lawes that they retaine to this present, and after that place, 



this, he desiring to sayle further, in a great tempest that as the J 



vet>ovt was 

 arose, was drowned, wherefore for a memoriall of his 5 onne)oDeda- 



death, they call those seas yet, the Icarian Sea, and the hs king of 



kings of the Island Icari, and for that they were contented Scots. 



with that state, which God had given them, neither lcarian Sea - 



would they alter one jote of their lawes and customes, 



they would not receive any stranger : wherefore they 



requested our prince, that hee would not seeke to violate 



their lawes, which they had received from that king of 



worthy memory and observed very duly to that present : 



which if he did attempt, it would redound to his manifest 



destruction, they being all resolutely bent rather to leave 



their life, then to loose in any respect the use of their 



lawes. Notwithstanding, that we should not thinke they 



did altogether refuse conversation and traffick with other 



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