doe (for the most part) blow there Easterly off from the shore, and the
current running that way in like sort, should haue driuen them Westward
vpon some part of America: for such winds and tides could neuer haue led
them from thence to the said place where they were found, nor yet could
they haue come from any of the countries aforesayd, keeping the seas
alwayes, without skilful mariners to haue conducted them such like courses
as were necessary to performe such a voiage.

3 Presupposing also, if they had bene driuen to the West (as they must haue
bene, comming that way) then they should haue perished, wanting supplie of
victuals, not hauing any place (once leauing the coast of Afrike) vntill
they came to America, nor from America vntill they arriued vpon some part
of Europe, or the Islands adioyning to it, to haue refreshed themselues.

4 Also, if (notwithstanding such impossibilities) they might haue recouered
Germanie by comming from India by the Southeast, yet must they without all
doubt haue stricken vpon some other part of Europe before their arriuall
there, as the Isles of the Açores, Portugal, Spaine, France, England,
Ireland, &c. which if they had done, it is not credible that they should or
would haue departed vndiscovered of the inhabitants: but there was neuer
found in those dayes any such ship or men but only vpon the coasts of
Germanie, where they haue bene sundry times and in sundry ages cast aland:
neither is it like that they would haue committed themselues againe to sea,
if they had so arriued, not knowing where they were, nor whither to haue
gone.

[Sidenote: This fifth reason by later experience is proued vtterly vntrue.]
5 And by the Southwest it is vnpossible, because the current aforesayd
which commeth from the East, striketh with such force vpon the fret of
Magellan, and falleth with such swiftnesse and furie into Mar del Zur, that