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knowledge of men by chance then by art or Industrie, to LlB - r - 

 the end wee may know that the glorie and praise of such 

 wonders should be attributed to the providence of the 

 Creator, and not to mans vnderstanding ; for that which we 

 thinke to happen accidently proceedes alwaies from the 

 ordinance and disposition of God, who does all things with 

 reason. 



CHAP. xx. Notwithstanding all that hath bene said, it is 



more likely that the first inhabitants of the Indies 



came by land. 



I conclude then, that it is likely the first that came to 

 the Indies was by shipwracke and tempest of wether, but 

 heereupon groweth a difficultie which troubleth me much. 

 For, suppose wee grant that the first men came from farre 

 Countries, and that the nations which we now see are 

 issued from them and multiplied, yet can I not coniecture 

 by what meanes brute beastes, whereof there is great 

 aboundance, could come there, not being likely they should 

 have bin imbarked and carried by sea. The reason that 

 inforceth us to yeeld that the first men of the Indies are 

 come from Europe or Asia, is the testirnonie of the holy 

 scripture, which teacheth us plainely that all men came 

 from Adam. We can therefore give no other beginning to 

 those at the Indies, seeing the holy scripture saieth, that Gen. 

 all beasts and creatures of the earth perished but such as 

 were reserved in the Arke of Noe, for the multiplication 

 and maintenance of their kinde; so as we must necessarily 

 referre the multiplication of all beastes to those which came 

 out of the Arke of Noe, on the mountaines of Ararat, where 

 it staied. And by this meanes we must seeke out both for 

 men and beastes the way whereby they might passe from the 

 old world to this new. Saint Augustine, treating vpon 

 this question, by what reason you shall finde in some llandes 



