opinion that the land, wherevnto he came, was some part of
Mexico:" etc.--David Powel, S.T.P., note in _The historie of
Cambria_, 1584. 4°. p. 229.

[The learned Powel relies on the authority of the poet Gutyn
Owen. "He wrote," says W. Owen, "between A.D. 1460 and
1490"--three centuries after the event in question!]

_Ethnographic evidence._

"They came [anno 1536] to part of the West Indies about Cape
Breton, shaping their course thence north-eastwards, vntill they
camme to the Island of Penguin," etc.--The voyage of master
Hore, in _The principall navigations_, etc. 1589. Fol.

[Antiquaries consider the mention of _Cape Breton_ and _Penguin
Island_ as evidence. It cannot prove much, as the particulars
were not committed to writing till about half-a-century after
the voyage.]

"There is also another kinde of foule in that countrey [between
the Gulf of Mexico and Cape Breton] ... they have white heads,
and therefore the country men call them _penguins_ (which
seemeth to be a Welsh nanme). And _they have also in use divers
other Welsh words, a matter worthy the noting_."--The relation
of David Ingram, 1568. in _The principall navigations_, etc.
1589. Fol.

[This narrative was compiled from answers to certain
_queries_--perhaps twenty years after the events related.]