the fret of Magellan, and wanting sufficient entrance there, by narrownes
of the straite, is by the necessitie of natures force, brought to Terra de
Labrador, where Iaques Cartier met the same, and thence certainly knowen,
not to strike ouer vpon Island, Lappia, &c. and found by Bernard de la
Torre in Mar del Sur, on the backeside of America: therefore this current
(hauing none other passage) must of necessity fall out thorow this our fret
into Mar del Sur, and so trending by the Moluccæ, China, and C. de buona
Sperança, maintaineth it selfe, by circular motion, which is all one in
nature, with Motus ab Oriente in Occidentem.

So that it seemeth, we haue now more occasion to doubt of our returne, then
whether there be a passage that way, yea or no: which doubt, hereafter
shall be sufficiently remooued. Wherefore, in mine opinion, reason it self,
grounded vpon experience, assureth vs of this passage, if there were
nothing els to put vs in hope thereof. But least these might not suffice, I
haue added in this chapter following, some further proofe hereof, by the
experience of such as haue passed some part of this discouerie: and in the
next adioining to that the authority of those, which haue sailed wholy,
thorow euery part thereof.


To proue by experience of sundry mens trauels, the opening of some part of
this Northwest passage: whereby good hope remaineth of the rest.

Chap. 3.

Paulus Venetus, who dwelt many yeres in Cataia, affirmed that hee sayled
1500 miles vpon the coastes of Mangia, and Anian, towards the Northeast:
alwayes finding the Seas open before him, not onely as farre as he went,
but also as farre as he could discerne.