3. And Pliny Upon The Same Saith That It Is No Marvel, Though There
Be Sea By The North, Where There Is Such Abundance Of Moisture;
Which Argueth, That He Doubted Not Of A Navigable Passage That Way,
Through Which Those Indians Came.
4. And for the better proof that the same authority of Cornelius
Nepos is not by me wrested to
Prove my opinion of the North-West
Passage, you shall find the same affirmed more plainly in that
behalf by the excellent geographer Dominicus Marius Niger, who
showeth how many ways the Indian sea stretcheth itself, making in
that place recital of certain Indians that were likewise driven
through the north seas from India, upon the coasts of Germany, by
great tempest, as they were sailing in trade of merchandise.
5. Also, whiles Frederick Barbarossa reigned Emperor, A.D. 1160,
there came certain other Indians upon the coast of Germany.
6. Likewise Othon, in the story of the Goths, affirmeth that in the
time of the German Emperors there were also certain Indians cast by
force of weather upon the coast of the said country, which foresaid
Indians could not possibly have come by the south-east, south-west,
nor from any part of Africa or America, nor yet by the north-east:
therefore they came of necessity by this our North-West Passage.
CHAPTER V. - TO PROVE THAT THESE INDIANS, AFORENAMED, CAME NOT BY THE
SOUTH-EAST, SOUTH-WEST, NOR FROM ANY OTHER PART OF AFRICA OR
AMERICA.
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