all that hath benefaidjt u more likely 

 that thefrjl inhabitants of the Indiesjfrw^ by land, 

 CHAP. 20. 



I Conclude then, that it is likely the firft that came to 

 thclxdies, was by fhipwracke and tempeft of we 

 ther , but heercvpon groweth a difficultie 5 which trou- 

 blethmemuch. For,fuppofe wee grant that the firft 

 men came from farre Countries , and that the nations 

 which we novvfee,are iffiicdfrom them, and multipli 

 ed; yet can I not coniedure,by what meanes brute 

 beaftes (whereof there is great aboundancej could 

 come there, not being likely , they fhould have bin im- 

 barked and carried by fea.The reafon thatinforceth vs 

 to yeeld, that the firft men of the Indies are come from 

 Europe,or^/7^, is theteftimonie of the holy fcripture, 

 which teacheth vs plainely , that all men came from 

 Adam. We can therefore give no other beginning to 

 thofe at the Indies, feeing the holy fcripture faieth, that 

 all beaftsand creatures of the earth perifhed^butfuch 

 as werereferved in the Arkeof Ato, for the multiplica 

 tion and maintenance of their kinde : fo as wemuft ne- 

 ceflarily referre the multiplication of all beaftes to 

 thofe which came out of the Arke of N$e , on the 

 mountaines of Ararat , where it ftaied. And by this 

 meanes , we muft feekc out both for men and beaftes, 

 the way whereby they might -pafTe from the old world 

 to this new. StimAaguftivc, treating vpon this quefti- 

 on , by what reafbn you fliall finde in feme Ilandes^ 

 Wolves, Tigers, and other ravenous beaftes , which 

 breede no profit to men , feeing there is no doubt, but 

 Elephants, Horfes, Oxen, Dogges, and other beaftes 



which 



