now the summe hereof together. The riuers runne where the chanels are most
hollow, the Sea in taking his course waxeth deeper, the Sea waters fall
continually from the North Southward, the Northeasterne current striketh
downe into the straight we speak of, and is there augmented with whole
mointaines of yce and snowe falling downe furiously out from the land vnder
the North pole. [Sidenote: Plin. lib. 2. cap. 67] Where store of water is,
there is it a thing impossible to want Sea, where Sea not onely doeth not
want, but waxeth deeper, there can be discouered no land, finally, whence I
pray you came the contrary tide, that M. Frobisher mette withall after he
had sailed no small way in that passage, if there be any Isthmos or
straight of land betwixt the aforesayd Northwesterne gulfe, and Mar del
Zur, to ioyne Asia and America together? That conclusion frequented in
scholes Quicquid præter, &c. was meant of the partes of the world then
knowen, and so it is of right to be vnderstood.

[Sidenote: Sol. 5.] The fift obiection requireth for answere wisdome and
policie in the trauailer to winne the Barbarians fauour by some good
meanes: and so to arme and strengthen himselfe, that when he shal haue the
repulse in one coast, he may safely trauaile to an other, commodiously
taking his conuenient times, and discreetely making choise of them with
whom hee will throughly deale. To force a violent entry, would for vs
Englishmen be very hard, considering the strength and valour of so great a
Nation, farre distant from vs, and the attempt thereof might be most
perilous vnto the doers, vnlesse their part were very good.

Touching their lawes against strangers, you shall reade neuerthelesse in
the same relations of Galeotto Perera, that the Cathaian king is woont to
graunt free accesse vnto all foreiners that trade into his Countrey for
Marchandise, and a place of libertie for them to remaine in: as the Moores
had, vntill such time as they had brought the Loutea or Lieutenant of that