6. And Further, It Seemeth Very Likely That The Inhabitants Of The
Most Part Of Those Countries, By Which They
Must have come any other
way besides by the north-west, being for the most part
anthropophagi, or men-eaters,
Would have devoured them, slain them,
or, at the leastwise, kept them as wonders for the gaze.
So that it plainly appeareth that those Indians - which, as you have
heard, in sundry ages were driven by tempest upon the shore of
Germany - came only through our North-West Passage.
7. Moreover, the passage is certainly proved by a navigation that a
Portuguese made, who passed through this strait, giving name to a
promontory far within the same, calling it after his own name,
Promontorium Corterialis, near adjoining unto Polisacus Fluvius.
8. Also one Scolmus, a Dane, entered and passed a great part
thereof.
9. Also there was one Salva Terra, a gentleman of Victoria in
Spain, that came by chance out of the West Indies into Ireland, Anno
1568, who affirmed the North-West Passage from us to Cathay,
constantly to be believed in America navigable; and further said, in
the presence of Sir Henry Sidney, then Lord Deputy of Ireland, in my
hearing, that a friar of Mexico, called Andre Urdaneta, more than
eight years before his then coming into Ireland, told him there that
he came from Mare del Sur into Germany through this North-West
Passage, and showed Salva Terra - at that time being then with him in
Mexico - a sea-card made by his own experience and travel in that
voyage, wherein was plainly set down and described this North-West
Passage, agreeing in all points with Ortelius' map.
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