Also diuers haue offered the like vnto the French king, who hath sent two
or three times to haue discouered the same: The discouerers spending and
consuming their victuals in searching the gulfes and bayes betweene Florida
and Terra de Labrador, whereby the yce is broken to the after commers.

So that the right way may now easily be found out in short time: and that
with little ieopardie and lesse expences.

For America is discouered so farre towards the North as Cape Frio,[45]
which is 62 degrees, and that part of Grondland next adioyning is knowen to
stand but at 72 degrees. [Sidenote: The labour of this discouerie shortned
by other mens trauell.] So that wee haue but 10 degrees to saile North and
South, to put the world out of doubt hereof: [Sidenote: Why the kings of
Spaine and Portugal would not perseuer in this discovery.] and it is likely
that the king of Spaine, and the king of Portugall would not haue sit out
all this while, but that they are sure to possesse to themselues all that
trade they now vse, and feare to deale in this discouery, least the Queenes
Maiestie hauing so good opportunitie, and finding the commoditie which
thereby might ensue to the common wealth, would cut them off, and enioy the
whole traffique to herselfe, and thereby the Spaniards and Portugals, with
their great charges, should beate the bush, and other men catch the birds:
which thing they foreseing, haue commanded that no pilot of theirs vpon
paine of death, should seeke to discouer to the Northwest, or plat out in
any Sea card any thorow passage that way by the Northwest.

Now, and if you will indifferently compare the hope that remaineth, to
animate me to this enterprise, with those likelihoods which Columbus
alleaged before Ferdinando the king of Castilia, to prooue that there were
such Islands in the West Ocean, as were after by him and others discouered