Cap. 8.

Because you may vnderstand as well those things alleaged against me, as
what doth serue for my purpose, I haue here added the reasons of Master
Anthony Ienkinson a worthy gentleman, and a great traueller, who conceiued
a better hope of the passage to Cataia from vs, to be by the Northeast,
then by the Northwest.

[Sidenote: The Northwest passage assented vnto.] He first said that he
thought not to the contrary, but that there was a passage by the Northwest
according to mine opinion: but assured he was, that there might be found a
nauigable passage by the Northeast from England, to goe to all the East
parts of the world, which he endeuoured to prooue three wayes.

[Sidenote: The first reason.] The first was that he heard a Fisherman of
Tartaria say in hunting the Morce, that he sayled very farre towards the
Southeast, finding no end of the Sea: whereby he hoped a thorow passage to
be that way.

[Sidenote: The answer or resolution.] Whereunto I answered, that the
Tartarians were a barbarous people, and vtterly ignorant in the Arte of
Nauigation, not knowing the vse of the Sea Card, Compasse or Starre, which
he confessed to be true: and therefore they could not (said I) certainly
know the Southeast from the Northeast, in a wide sea, and a place vnknowen
from the sight of the land.

Or if he sailed any thing neere the shore, yet he (being ignorant) might be
deceiued by the doubling of many points and Capes, and by the trending of
the land, albeit he kept continually alongst the shore.