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Steer'd from a known World, to an unknown , with no better accommodati- 

 on ; but fome probable reafons may be made out, to induce us to believe, that 

 they were rather driven thither by Stormv 



But fome will fay, How liv'd the little Boats, and how indur'd they in fuch 

 a continual Temped, and were not either fwallow'd up amidft the Waves, or 

 ftarv'd for want of Provifion, which their hollow Troughs could not con- 

 tain ? 



The firft doubt is the leaft, for there are Examples enough by which appear, 

 that oftentimes great Ships Bulging,are over.fet or funk in the Sea by foul Wea! 

 ther when the Mariners efcape in their Cock=Boat; and if they were but thin- 

 ly Viftual'd for fo long a Voyage, queftionlefs, that little which they had, they 

 fpun out, and made it lad, while the impetuous Storm fhortned th* paffage, 

 which fair Weather would have made much longer. 

 pu l* c„. <pi tny te n s us fj nntus flocquius, General of the <l(ed>Sea y That one of his 



J; r si^ voyageofa ^ S, * ves being Enfranchiz'd , Sailing down towards the Arabian Gulf, was car- 

 ry 'd by a violent Tempeft from the North, beyond Qaramania , and on the fif- 

 teenth day came to an Anchor in Hippuros, a Haven of Taprobane, which Ortelius 

 judges to be Sumatra ; but Mercator and CluVerius, on better grounds, Zeylon\ 

 which is no lefs than three thoufand Etiglijh Miles. 



In like manner, Jofepb de Acofla tells us, That in fifteen days time, he got 

 with a Northerly Wind from the Qanams to America, and his Voyage had been 

 fliorter, durfl: he have born more Sails, which may partly clear the former 

 doubts. 



Moreover, the Peruvians themfelves give fome fmall Teftimony (in their an- 

 tient Records) of a few that Landed of old upon their Coafts, which were (as 

 they fay) mighty and cruel Giants, committing much Bloodfhed, Slaughtering 

 the Natives every where • and having fubdu'd the whole Countrey,built (lately 

 Edifices, of which remain yet the Ruines of fome Foundations, very Artificial 

 and Coftly. They alfo (hew near Manta, and Puerto Viejo, many huge Bones (as 



they 



The Peruvians opinion 

 concerning anti£nt Sea- 

 Voyages. 





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