Htiiarie of the Indies, lib.i. 45 



led bytheinhbitantsofthecoimtrie, where the Spa 

 niards arived vpon their firft difcoverie . Whereby we 

 maintaine that the Indians themfelves bee ignorant, 

 and do not vfe this name and appellation to fignifie 

 their land. It feemeth moreover, the fame Authors 

 will fay, that^^r{pokenofinthefaipture 5 is that 

 which we now call Andes, which are moft high moun- 

 taines in Peru . But this refemblance of names and ap 

 pellations is no fufficient proofe. If that were of force, 

 we might as well fay, that httan is lecfen , mentioned 

 in the holy fcripture . Neither may we fay , that the ^ G ' f 10 - 

 names of Titw and JW, which the Kings Inguas ' 

 ofPtfwdavfe, come from the Romans or Chriftians, 

 feeing itis too weake an argument , to draw a con'du- 

 fion of great matters . We fee plainely,that it is contra. 

 rie to the intention of the holy fcriptures, which fome 

 have written , that Ttiarfis and Ophir were one and 

 the fame Province, conferring the 22- chapter of the 

 4. booke of the Kings, with the 20. chapter of the fe- 

 cond booke oartujfm0r'w , for that in the booke of 

 the Kings 5 it is {aid, that Ivfapkat prepared a fleete of 

 fhippesin Ajiongaber to fetch golde at Ophir , and in 

 PAralipomenen , it is written, that the fame fleete was 

 furnifned to go vnto Thar fa. Whereby ir may be {up. 

 pofed, that in thefe fore-faid bookes > where the fcrip 

 ture fpeakes ofT^/y/>ando^/>, that it meanes one 

 thing . Some one may demaund, what region or Pro- 

 vincethat o^/>was , whether Solomons fleete went 

 with the Mariners offfyram King of Tyre and Stdontv 

 fetch hold. And whether King lofaphats fleete , pre-$ 

 tending to go , did fuffer fliipwracke,and perifh in Afi- 4.^*1*. 

 gng&berj& the holy fcripture doth teftifie. In this I do 

 v/illingly agree with the opinion oftofepb> in his books 



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