Yet I give more credit to our _Montezinus_, being a _Portingal_, and a _Jew_ of our Order; borne in a City of _Portingal_, called _Villefleur_, of honest and known Parents, a man about forty yeares old, honest, and not ambitious. He went to the _Indies_, where he was put into the Inquisition, as the successor of many who were borne in _Portingal_, and descended from them, whom the King of _Portingal_, _Don Manuel_ forced to turne Christians: (_O wicked, and unjust action_, saith _Osorius_; and a little after, _This was done neither according to Law, nor Religion_,) and yet to this day they privately keep their Religion, which they had changed, being forced thereto. He being freed from the Inquisition, very diligently sought out these things, and oft spoke with those men, and then was not quiet till he came hither, and had told us that good newes. He endured much in that journey, and was driven to great want, so that no house would give him food, or give him money for his worke. I my selfe was well acquainted with him for six months together that he lived here; and sometimes I made him take an Oath in the presence of honest men, that what he had told, was true. Then he went to _Farnambuc_, where two yeares after he dyed, taking the same Oath at his death. Which if it be so, why should not I beleeve a man that was vertuous, and having all that which men call gaine. And who knowes but that shortly the truth of that Prognostick may appeare, which our _Montezinus_ learned from the _Mohanes_; answerable to that which _Jacobus Verus_ an Astrologer of _Prague_ writ after the apparition of the Comet in _Ann._ 1618. and dedicated to his Highnesse the Prince _Palatine_, where he thus discourseth: The Comet going towards the South, doth intimate that the Cities and Provinces which God doth threaten, are those of the _West-Indies_, which shall revolt from the King of _Spaine_, who will finde that losse greater then he imagined, not that the _Indians_ rebell against him of themselves, but that they are provoked to it being stirred up by others. Neither did the Comet only fore-tell that, but the eclipse of the Sun, which was in that Country the yeare before. Thus far the Astrologer. Our ancient Rabbins say, though we doe not beleeve the Astrologers in all things, yet we doe not wholly reject them, who sometimes tell truth. _SECT. 14._ Thus farre of the _West-Indies_, of which _Isaiah_ may be understood (because it lyes in the midst of the Sea, and also hath many Islands) in _Isa._ 60.9. _The isles shall waite for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring their Sons from far, their silver and their gold with them_, Jer. 31.10. _Heare the Word of the Lord O ye Nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattereth Israel will gather him_, Psal. 97.1. _The Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoyce, and the multitude of isles be glad._ Where part of the ten Tribes doe dwell unknown to this day.