[Sidenote: Visus nonnunquam fallitur in suo obíecto.] And further, it might
be that the poore Fishermen through simplicitie thought that there was
nothing that way but sea, because he saw no land: which proofe (vnder
correction) giueth small assurance of a Nauigable sea by the Northeast, to
goe round about the world, For that be iudged by the eye onely, seeing we
in this our cleare aire doe account twentie miles a ken at Sea.

[Sidenote: The second reason or allegation.] His second reason is, that
there was an Vnicornes horne found vpon the coast of Tartaria, which could
not come (said he) thither by any other meanes then with the tides, through
some fret in the Northeast of Mare Glaciale, there being no Vnicorne in any
part of Asia, sauing in India and Cataia: which reason (in my simple
iudgement) forceth as litle.

[Sidenote: The answer or resolution.] First, it is doubtfull whether those
barbarous Tartarians do know an Vnicornes horne, yea, or no: and if it were
one, yet it is not credible that the Sea could haue driuen it so farre,
being of such nature that it will not swimme.

Also the tides running too and fro, would haue driuen it as farre backe
with the ebbe, as it brought it forward with the flood.

There is also a beast called Asinus Indicus (whose horne most like it was)
which hath but one horne like an Vnicorne in his forehead, whereof there is
great plenty in all the North parts thereunto adioyning, as in Lappia,
Noruegia, Finmarke, &c. as Iacobus Zieglerus writeth in his historie of
Scondia.

And as Albertus saieth, there is a fish which hath but one horne in his
forehead like to an Vnicorne, and therefore it seemeth very doubtfull both