The principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation. [vols. 1-3] made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600. yeres: deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. The first volume containeth the worthy discoueries, &c. of the English ... The second volume comprehendeth the principall nauigations ... to the south and south-east parts of the world ... By Richard Hakluyt preacher, and sometime student of Christ-Church in Oxford.

To prooue by circumstance that the Northwest passage hath bene sayled throughout. Chap. 4.

* 1.1THe diuersitie betweene bruite beastes and men, or betweene the wise and the simple is, that the one iudgeth by sense onely, and gathereth no surety of any thing that he hath not seene, felt, heard, tasted, or smelled: And the other not so onely, but also findeth the certaintie of things by reason, before they happen to be tryed. Wherefore I haue added proofes of both sorts, that the one and the other might thereby be satisfied.

1 First, as Gemma Frisius reciteth, there went from Europe three brethren through this passage: whereof it tooke the name of Fretum trium fratrum.

2 Also Plinie affirmeth out of Cornelius Nepos, (who wrote 57 yeeres before Christ) that there were certaine Indians driuen by tempest, vpon the coast of Germanie which were presen∣ted by the king of Sueuia, vnto Quintus Metellus Celer, the Proconsull of France.

* 1.23 And Plinie vpon the same sayth, that it is no maruell though there be Sea by the North, where there is such abundance of moisture: which argueth that hee doubted not of a nauigable passage that way, through which those Indians came.

4 And for the better proofe that the same authoritie of Cornelius Nepos is not by me wre∣sted, to proue my opinion of the Northwest passage: you shall finde the same affirmed more plain∣ly in that behalfe, by the excellent Geographer Dominicus Marius Niger,* 1.3 who sheweth how ma∣ny wayes the Indian sea stretcheth it selfe, making in that place recital of certaine Indians, that were likewise driuen through the North Seas from India, vpon the coastes of Germany, by

great tempest, as they were sayling in trade of marchandize.

5 Also while Frederic Barbarossa reigned Emperour, Anno Do. 1160.* 1.4 there came certaine other Indians vpon the coast of Germanie.

6 Likewise Othon in the storie of the Gothes affirmeth, that in the time of the Germane Emperours, there were also certaine Indians cast by force of weather, vpon the coast of the sayd countrey, which foresaid Indians could not possibly haue come by the Southeast, South∣west, nor from any part of Afrike or America, nor yet by the Northeast: therefore they came of necessitie by this our Northwest passage.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Quinq••e sensu••.

  • 1 Vi••••s.
  • 2 Audi••us.
  • 3 Ol••a••ius.
  • 4 Gustus.
  • 5 Tactus.

  Singula••ia sensu, vni••••r••alia ve••ò mente pe••cipiun∣tur.
• * 1.2

  Lib. 2. cap. 66.
• * 1.3

  Pag. 590.
• * 1.4

  Auouched by Franciscus Lopes de Gomara in his historie of India, lib. 1. cap. 10.