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
[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
coast to be a circumcised Saracene: wherefore some of them were put to the
sword, the rest were scattered abroad: at Fuquien a great citie in China,
certaine of them are yet this day to be seene. As for the Iapans they be
most desirous to be acquainted with strangers. The Portingals though they
were straitly handled there at the first, yet in the ende they found great
fauor at the Prince his hands, insomuch that the Loutea or president that
misused them was therefore put to death. The rude Indian Canoa halleth
those seas, the Portingals, the Saracens, and Moores trauaile continually
vp and downe that reach from Iapan to China, from China to Malacca, from
Malacca to the Moluccaes: and shall an Englishman, better appointed then
any of them all (that I say no more of our Nauie) feare to saile in that
ocean? What seas at all doe want piracie? what Nauigation is there voyde of
perill?
[Sidenote: Sol. 6.] To the last argument. Our trauailers neede not to seeke
their returne by the Northeast, neither shall they be constrained, except
they list, either to attempt Magellans straight at the Southwest, or to be
in danger of the Portingals for the Southeast: they may returne by the
Northwest, that same way they doe goe foorth, as experience hath shewed.
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