The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12: America, Part IHakluyt, Richard
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12: America, Part I
Hakluyt, Richard
Discoveries in geography -- English; Voyages and travels
7 Also Iaques Cartier hauing done the like, heard say at Hochelaga in Noua
Francia, how that there was a great Sea at Saguinay, whereof the end was
not knowen: which they presupposed to be the passage to Cataia.
[Sidenote: Written in the discourses of Nauigation.] Furthermore, Sebastian
Cabota by his personal experience and trauel hath set foorth, and described
this passage in his Charts, which are yet to be seene in the Queens
Maiesties priuie Gallerie at Whitehall, who was sent to make this discouery
by king Henrie the seuenth, and entred the same fret: affirming that he
sayled very farre Westward, with a quarter of the North, on the Northside
of Terra de Labrador the eleuenth of Iune, vntill he came to the
Septentrionall latitude of 67 degrees and a halfe,[41]and finding the Seas
still open, sayd, that he might, and would haue gone to Cataia, if the
mutinie of the Master and Mariners had not bene.
Now as these mens experience hath proued some part of this passage: so the
chapter following shal put you in full assurance of the rest, by their
experiences which haue passed through euery part thereof.
To prooue by circumstance that the Northwest passage hath bene sayled
throughout.
Chap. 4.
The diuersitie betwene bruite beastes and men, or betweene the wise and the
simple is, that the one iudgeth by sense onely, [Marginal note: Quinque
sensus. 1 Visus. 2 Auditus. 3 Olfactus. 4 Gustus. 5 Tactus. Singularia
sensu, vniuersalia verò mente percipiuntur.] 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.
3 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 presented by the king of Sueuia, vnto Quintus
Metellus Celer, the Proconsull of France.
[Sidenote: Lib. 2. cap. 66.] 3 And Plinie vpon the same sayth, that it is
no maruel 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.
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