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grees above the fayd Straight. So as there is no reafbn 

 or experience that doth contradid my conceit and o~ 

 pinion which is,that thewhole earth is vnjtcdjk ioy- 

 nedLin fome part , or it the lealt, the one ^pgroGheth 

 neere vnto the^otherTlf this be trucks in effe<5Tthere 

 is fome likelyhood, ) theanfivereiseafietothedouht 

 wehave propounded, how the firft Inhabitants could 

 paflTe to the Indies : For that wee muft bcleeve they 

 could not fo conveniently come thither by Sea, as tra 

 velling by Land 3 which might be done without confi- 

 dcration,in changing by little and little their lands and 

 habitations. Some peopling the lands they founrf,and 

 others feeking for newc 5 in time they came to inhabite 

 and people the Indies , withfo many nations , people^ 

 and tongues as we fee. 



By what memnes tame Beasts- faffed to the Indies. 

 CHAP. 21. 



npHe fignes and arguments, which offer themfelves 

 A to fuch as are curious to examine the Indians ma- 

 ners and fafliions, helpc aiuch to maintayne the fore- 

 fayd opinion : for that you (hall not finde any inhabi- 

 ting the Hands that are farre from themaine Land , or 

 from other Hands, as \hzBermudes, the reafbn where 

 of is, for that the Ancients did never iayle but alongft 

 thecoaft,andinviewof land : whereupon it is repdr^ 

 ted, that they have found no great Ships in any part of 

 the Indies y capableto paffe fuch GuJphs 3 but onely Bal- 

 fees, Barkes and C^^f,which are all leffe then our long 

 boates, the which the Indians doe onely vfe, with the 

 which they could not runne through fb great a Pad 



