6^ The P^aturall and Mora/I 



mainders of 'Spanijh jlrippes that had perifled. And after 

 he faith : Nepos re fortes of the Ifyrtherne cirettite , that 

 they brought to Qjjin tgs Metellus Carler companion in the 

 Confulfiipto Cains Affranius (the fame Metellus being 

 thenProconfullin G&Atfcertaine Indians which had btenc 

 prefentedby the King tffSueden.- the which Indians .failing 

 from India,/^ their trafficke, were cajl vpon Germanic by 

 force ofiempeft . Doubtles, if Plims fpeaketh truth , the 

 1 Portugalcs in thefe daies,faile no further then they did 

 in thole two (hipwrackes , the one from Spaine to the 

 red Sea , the other from the Eaft Indies to Germanic. 

 The fame Author writes in another place, thatafer- 

 vant tfAnniu* Plocamw^ who formed the cuftomes of 

 theredSea, failing thecourfeof Arabia,^ therecame 

 fo furious a Northerne wind, that in fiftecnedaieshe 

 pafled Caramania, and difcovered Hippares , a port in 

 Taprobane , which at this day we call Sumatra . And 

 they report ofafhippeofc^r^^, which was driven 

 out of the Mediterranean Sea , by a NorthernAd, 

 to the view of this new world. The which is 

 thing to fuch as have any knowledge of dIea , to 

 know that fbmetimes a ftorme continu^^pg & furi- 

 ous,without any intermiffion . I ra^jel|^Pingjtp the 

 TggK^parringjronr the Canaries, fiaveJrlReene daies, 

 dlTcovered th^ firff lanJ^geopled _&y tFe Spaniards . 

 And without doubt, this voiage had beenlhorter , if 

 the Mariners had fct vp all their failes to the Northerne 

 winds that blew. It feemes therefore likely to me,that 

 In times paft,men came to the Indies againtt their wills, 

 driven by the furie of the winds . In/Vrfl, they make 

 great mention of certaine Giants, wfilch]hav Seen in 

 tlioIFparts, whofetoncs arej^Heene^atlS^^and 

 pf afaugc greameSj and by their proportion^ 



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