Chap. V. \ AMERICA. 66v 



Tafman profecuting his Voyage farther, difcover'd the folding day another *fi™p^ 

 iQand and a crooked Arm of £{eTb Guinee, near which he judg'd might be an Open?^ «£ < 

 ing betwixt Ne» G«m^ and Gi/o/o ; then leaving on his Starboard a ^reat many 

 blind Cliffs, dangerous Shelves, and uneven Grounds, he caft Anchor near a. Rock, 

 which at high Water was overflow'd. A Boat coming near the Ship, in which 

 were fix Men, whofe long Hair hung down their Backs, one of them amongft the 

 reft Handing up, cali'd to the Hollanders in the Ternaren Language, faying, What 

 People ? to which a Seaman, who underftood and fpake the faid Language, an* 

 fwcr'd, Spaniards : whereupon he ask'd, From what Countrey, and whither bound ? to 

 which he was anfwerM, From Moa to Ternata : The Southlander hereupon reply'd, 

 You are Deceivers, the Ship is not Spanifl), but Holland make . whereupon Tafman caus'd 

 the Prince of Orange's Flag to be put out, which the Southlander no fooricr faw, but 

 he cry'd, It appears by your Flags that you are 'Hollanders, who are always more welcom to us 

 than Spaniards : However, though the Seaman acknowledged his miftakc, in faying 

 they were Spaniards- yet the Southlanders would not ftay within fhot of them, but at 

 their Rowing away cry'd aloud, Here is abundance of Tifang, Clappes, Potato's, Sugar- 

 Canes, and other Fruits on Shore. 



From hence Tafman Sail'd Northerly between many Iflcs, and a Channel that 

 Separates New Guinee from Gilolo, by Cerani, Manipe, Bolao, and Burro, to a narrow 

 Opening, where Vangefane being on his Larboard, rofe with exceeding high 

 Rocks, as <Botton on the Starboard. Thefe Rocks are moft of them overgrown 

 with Trees and Brambles. In the middle of this Channel alfo lies a Rock, for its 

 fhape cali'd A Galley, by which Tafman Sailing, bent his Courfe homeward, and at 

 laft, on the fifteenth oijune, Anno 1 645. caft Anchor before Satayia. 



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CHAP. V. 

 Terra Borealis, or The Artick Region: 



HAving fpoken fomcthing of the Terra Aujlralis Incognita, or Unknown South- 

 Land, there remains fomething to be faid of the oppofite part, namely, the 

 Terra Borealis, or the Artick Region ; which is cali'd Incognita in like manner 

 as the Terra Aujlralis, in regard, though very much, as well of the one as of the 

 other, hath been fcarch'd into, and in part difcover'd >y feveral Voyagers, yet 

 doubtlefs there is a very vaftTraft of Land, in the Artick Region efpccially (if it be ' 

 not rather Sea,) which is altogether unknown, and thofc parts which have been 

 difcover'd, as Groenland, If eland, NoVa Zembla,Spilbergen,Hudfons Straights and Bay, &c. 

 fo imperfectly known, that they may well deferve the Title of Unknown. 



The feveral parts of this Artick Region are, I. Terra Subpolaris Incognita, or that part 

 which lies directly under the Poland is other wife cali'd Orbis Artticus. U Groenland. 

 3. S(ilbergen,otNieuland. 5. JJ 'eland. 6. £{oVa Zembla. 



The Terra Subpolaris is defcrib'd by a certain Seaman of -Bofleduc, to be a great A ^^ 

 black Rock,about thirty five Leagues in compafs,and of an extraordinary heighth; S£#2r 

 through the Land adjoyning to which the Sea violently breaking, makes four 

 great and violent Euripi, or Whirlpools, whofe Waters driving Northward with 

 fo forcible a Stream, that no Ship, though carry'd by nexer fo ftrong a Gale, 

 is able to ftem the Current, are at laft fwallow'd up fn the Earth. It is alfo rc- 

 t ^ Ooo 5 ported, 





