the olde Spanish prouerbe, I suffer for doing well. Likewise Andrew
Vrdaneta a Fryer of Mexico came out of Mar del Zur this way into Germanie:
his Carde (for he was a great discouerer) made by his owne experience and
trauell in that voyage, hath bene seene by Gentlemen of good credite.

[Sidenote: Cic. 1. de orat. Arist, pri. Metaph.] Now if the obseruation and
remembrance of things breedeth experience, and of experience proceedeth
arte, and the certaine knowledge we haue in all faculties, as the best
Philosophers that euer were doe affirme: truely the voyage of these
aforesayd trauellers that haue gone out of Europe into Mar del Zur, and
returned thence at the Northwest, do most euidently conclude that way to be
nauigable, and that passage free. [Sidenote: Lib. 1. Geog. Cap. 2.] So much
the more we are so to thinke for that the first principle and chiefe ground
in all Geographie, as Ptolome saith, is the history of trauell, that is,
reports made by trauellers skilful in Geometrie and Astronomie, of all such
things in their iourney as to Geographie doe belong. It onely then
remaineth, that we now answere to those arguments that seemed to make
against this former conclusion.

[Sidenote: Sol. 1.] The first obiection is of no force, that generall table
of the world set forth by Ortelius or Mercator, for it greatly skilleth
not, being vnskilfully drawen for that point: as manifestly it may appeare
vnto any one that conferreth the same with Gemma Frisius his vniuersall
Mappe, with his round quartered carde, with his globe, with Sebastian
Cabota his table, and Ortelius his generall mappe alone, worthily preferred
in this case before all Mercator and Ortelius other doings: for that Cabota
was not onely a skilful Sea man, but a long traueller, and such a one as
entred personally that straight, sent by king Henry the seuenth to make
this aforesayd Discouerie, as in his owne discourse of nauigation you may
reade in his carde drawen with his owne hand, that the mouth of the