circulariter agi in gyrum circa terræ globum, non autem Demogorgone
anhelante vomi, absorberique vt nonnulli senserunt, quod influxu, et
refluxu forsan assentire daretur. Baccalaos, Cabotus ipse terras illas
appellauit, eò quod in earum pelago tantam reperierit magnorum quorundam
piscium, tynnos æmulantium, sic vocatorum ab indigenis, multitudinem, vt
etiam illi interdum nauigia detardarent. Earum Regionum homines pellibus
tantum coopertos reperiebat, rationis haudquaquam expertes. Vrsorum inesse
regionibus copiam ingentem refert, qui et ipsi piscibus vescantur. Inter
densa namque piscium illorum agmina sese immergunt vrsi, et singulos
singuli complexos, vnguibusque inter squammas immissis in terram raptant et
comedunt. Proptereà minimè noxios hominibus visos esse ait Orichalcum in
plerisque locis se vidisse apud incolas prædicat. Familiarem habeo domi
Cabotum ipsum, et contubernalem interdum. Vocatus namque ex Britannia à
Rege nostro Catholico, post Henrici Maioris Britanniæ Regis mortem,
concurialis noster est, expectatque indies, vt nauigia sibi parentur,
quibus arcanum hoc naturæ latens iam tandem detegatur.


The same in English.

These North Seas haue bene searched by one Sebastian Cabot, a Venetian
borne, whom being yet but in maner an infant, his parents carried with them
into England, hauing occasion to resort thither for trade of marchandise,
as in the maner of the Venetians to leaue no part of the world vnsearched
to obtaine riches. Hee therefore furnished two ships in England at his owne
charges, and first with 300 men directed his course so farre towards the
North pole, that euen in the moneth of Iuly he found monstrous heapes of
ice swimming on the sea, and in maner continuall day light, yet saw he the
land in that tract free from ice, which had bene molten by the heat of the
Sunne. Thus seeing such heapes of yce before him, hee was enforced to turne