be benighted almost the one halfe of the yeere, and what danger that were,
to liue so long comfortlesse, voide of light, (if the cold killed you not)
each man of reason or vnderstanding may iudge.

[Sidenote: Some doubt of this.] 2 Also Mangia, Quinzai, and the Moluccæ are
neerer vnto vs by the Northwest, then by the Northeast, more then two fiue
parts, which is almost by the halfe.

3 Also we may haue by the West a yeerely returne, it being at all times
nauigable, whereas you haue but 4. moneths in the whole yeere to goe by the
Northeast: the passage being at such eleuation as it is formerly expressed,
for it cannot be any neerer the South.

4 Furthermore, it cannot be finished without diuers wintrings by the way,
hauing no hauens in any temperate climate to harbour in there: for it is as
much as we can well saile from hence to S. Nicholas, in the trade of
Moscouia, and returne in the nauigable season of the yeere, and from S.
Nicholas to Cerimissi Tartari, which stande at 80 degrees of the
Septentrional latitude, it is at the least 400 leagues, which amounteth
scarce to the third part of the way, to the end of your voyage by the
Northeast.

5 And yet after you haue doubled this Cape, if then there might be found a
nauigable Sea to carie you Southeast according to your desire, yet can you
not winter conueniently, vntil you come to 60 degrees, and to take vp one
degree running Southeast, you must saile 24 leagues and three foure parts,
which amounteth to 495 leagues.

6 Furthermore, you may by the Northwest saile thither with all Easterly
windes, and returne with any Westerly windes, whereas you must haue by the