But this opinion doth not satisfie, because they anciently were white men, bearded, and civill in converse; but contrarily those of _Panama_, St. _Martha_, and the Isles in _Cuba_, and _Barlovent_, went naked. Further-more, who can thinke that the language which he saith, they first spoke, should be so soone changed, that it should be wholly another; and there is no agreement between the one and the other. The learned _Arias Montanus_ thinkes, that the _Indians_ of _New-Spaine_, and _Peru_, are the Off-spring of _Ophir_ the sonne of _Jokton_, the nephew of _Heber_. And he backes his opinion, by the name _Ophir_, which by transposition of letters, is the same with _Peru_; and he adds, that the name _Parvaim_ in the duall number, doth signifie the _Istmus_ between _New-Spaine_ and _Peru_, which first was called _Ophir_, then _Peru_; and that these Countries are that _Peru_, from whence King _Solomon_ brought Gold, precious Stones, &c., as in _1 King._ _chap._ 9. _v._ 10. & _2 Chron._ 9.21. This opinion seems more probable than the other, and may be backed by another name of the River _Piru_, which according to _Gomoras_, lyes in the second degree from the Equinoctiall line, from _Panama_ 222. miles; as also by the name of the Province _Jucatan_, which may be derived from _Joktan_ the father of _Ophir_. But besides that this notation is somewhat farre fetcht, it crosses what _Josephus Acosta_ affirmes in _1. Histor._ of _Jud._ _c._ 13. who saith, that the name _Peru_ was unknowne to the _Indians_ themselves before those _Spaniards_ gave that name. Add to this what _Garcillasso de la Vega_ in the first part of his Commentary on _Peru_, _c._ 4. saith, that when a certaine _Spanyard, Basco Nunnez de Balboa_, lived in that Country, and asked a Fisher-man, what was the name of that Province, he answered _Beru_; (which was the Fisher-mans owne name, he thinking that was the question) and he farther said, that the name of the River where he fished, was called _Pelu_. Hence you may see, that _Peru_ is made of both those words; which also many _Spanyards_ besides him, we have mentioned, doe testifie. Besides, who can thinke that _Solomon_ neglecting the _East-Indies_, a place so rich, and abounding with all things, should send a Fleet so farre off as to the _West-Indies_. Also we read in _1 King._ 9. that _Solomon_ made ships in _Ezion-Geber_ on the shoare of the red Sea, which also _Jehosaphat_ did, with _Ahaziah_, as _Ezra_ saith, in _2 Chron._ 20. and it is certaine that those of those Countries went that ordinary way to _India_. And it will not follow, that because the holy Scripture sometimes saith, that they went to _Tarsis_, and sometimes; that they went to _Ophir_, that therefore both those places are the same; since that _Tarsis_ is not, as some thinke _Carthage_, or _Tunes_ in _Africa_ for that the Navie of _Solomon_ did not set sayle from _Joppa_, a port of the Mediterranean, but from _Ezion-Geber_, a Port of the red Sea, from whence they could