farre into the land, so that he sayled thence along the coast continually
full South, so farre as he could trauell in the space of fiue dayes, where
hee discouered a mighty riuer, which opened farre into the land, and in the
entrie of this riuer he turned backe againe.[33]

[Sidenote: By Sir Hugh Willoughbie knight, Chancellor and Borough.[34]]
Whereby it appeareth that he went the very same way, that we now doe yerely
trade by S. Nicholas into Moscouia, which no man in our age knew for
certaintie to be by sea, vntil it was since discouered by our English men,
in the time of King Edward the sixt; but thought before that time that
Groneland had ioyned to Normoria, Byarmia, &c. and therefore was accompted
a new discouery, being nothing so indeede, as by this discourse of Ochther
it appeareth.

Neuerthelesse if any man should haue taken this voyage in hand by the
encouragement of this onely author, he should haue bene thought but simple:
considering that this Nauigation was written so many yeres past, in so
barbarous a tongue by one onely obscure author, and yet we in these our
dayes finde by our owne experiences his former reports to be true.

How much more then ought we to beleeue this passage to Cataia to bee, being
verified by the opinions of all the best, both Antique, and Moderne
Geographers, and plainely set out in the best and most allowed Mappes,
Charts, Globes, Cosmographical tables and discourses of this our age, and
by the rest not denied but left as a matter doubtfull.


To prooue by reason, a passage to be on the Northside of America, to goe to
Cataia, &c.