Bijlorie of the Indie*, lib. it 61 



That we may conietture, how the frft Inhabitants of the 

 Indies came thither by force of weather, and not wil 

 lingly. CHAP* 19. 



HAving flicwed-, that there is no reafbn tobekeve, 

 that thefirft Inhabitants of the Indies came thi 

 ther purpofely ; it followeth then , that if they came 

 by Sea, it was by chance 5 or by force of weather, the 

 which is notincredible, notwithftanding thevaftnefle 

 of the Ocean , feeing the like hath happened in our 

 time , when as that Marriner, (whofgjiame we are yet 

 ^he end io great a worke , and of ftich 



importancejfliould not be attributed to any other Au 

 thor then to God ) having ( through tempeft difcove- 

 red this new world,) left for payment of his lodging, 

 where he had received ifr . fg Chriftopber Columkm , the 

 knowledge of fo great a fecret.Even foitmight chance, 

 that fome of Europe or ^ffrickeln times paftjhave bin 

 driven by foule weather 3 and caft vpon vnkn:owne 

 lands beyond the Ocean. Who knoweth not 5 that 

 moft, or the greateft part of the Regions in this newe 

 world, weredifcoyered by this meanes , the which we 

 muft rather ^tribute to the violence of the weather, 

 then to the fpirit and indiiftrie of thofc which have di 

 covered. And to the end we may know, that it is not 

 in our timeonely, that they have vndertaken fuch voi- 

 ages, through the greatnefle of our fhippeSiand the va 

 lour and courage of our men: we may readein Pbnie, 

 that many of the Ancients have made the like voya 

 ges , he writes in this manner : It is reported that Caius 

 Ca?far,y5;^/0 Auguftus Ca?lar,^wj- cbargtvpon the 

 Arabian Su 3 did there fie and fnde cerUinepecesandre- 



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