THE INDIANS COULD ONLY MARK SHORT VOYAGES. Gl 



For that wee must beleeve they could not so conveniently LTB - J - 

 come thither by Sea as travelling by Land,, which might be 

 done without consideration in changing by little and little 

 their lands and habitations. Some peopling the lands they 

 found, and others seeking for uewe, in time they came to 

 inhabite and people the Indies, with so many nations, 

 people, and tongues as we see. 



CFTAP. xxi. By what meanes tame Beasts passed to the 

 Indies. 



The signes and arguments, which offer themselves to 

 such as are curious to examine the Indians manors and 

 fashions, helpe much to maintayne the foresayd opinion ; 

 for that you shall not finde any inhabiting the Hands that 

 are farre from the maine Land, or from other Hands, as the 

 Bermudes, the reason whereof is, for that the Ancients did 

 never sayle but alongst the coast, and in view of land ; 

 whereupon, it is reported that they have found no great 

 Ships in any part of the Indies capable to passe such Grulphs, 

 but onely Balsaes, Barkes, and Canoes, which are all lesse 

 then our long boates, the which the Indians doe onely vse, 

 with the which they could not runne through so great a 

 Passage, without apparent danger of ship-wracke, and 

 although their shippes had been sufficient, yet had they no 

 knowledge of the Astrolabe or Compasse. If then they had 

 beene but eight or tenne dayes at Sea without sight of land, 

 they must of necessitie loose themselves, having no know 

 ledge where they were. Wee know many Ilandes well 

 peopled with Indians, and their usuall navigations, the 

 which was such, as they may well perforrne in Canoes and 

 boats, without any Compasse to sayle by. Whenas the In 

 dians of Peru, which remayne at Tumbez, did see our first 

 Spanish shippes sayling to Peru, and viewed the greatnosso 



