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A09429	A true discourse of the late voyages of discouerie, for the finding of a passage to Cathaya, by the Northvveast, vnder the conduct of Martin Frobisher Generall deuided into three bookes. In the first wherof is shewed, his first voyage ... Also, there are annexed certayne reasons, to proue all partes of the worlde habitable, with a generall mappe adioyned. In the second, is set out his second voyage ... In the thirde, is declared the strange fortunes which hapned in the third voyage ... VVith a particular card therevnto adioyned of Meta Incognita ...	Best, George, d. 1584.	1578 (1578)	STC 1972; ESTC S104566	113,756	182

person if by any speciall seruice hee hath merited the same to the ende that the well deseruing man receiuing the due commendation of his deserte maye bee encouraged to continue and take pleasure in well dooyng after and others being animated by like example maye for hope of lyke rewarde also desire to deserue well By this Discourse it may please your Honour to behold the greate industrie of oure present age and the inuincible mindes of oure Englishe nation who haue neuer lefte anye worthy thing vnattempted nor anye parte almoste of the whole worlde vnsearched whome lately neither stormes of Seas by long and tedious voyages daunger of darke fogs and hidden rockes in vnknowne coastes congealed and frosen Seas with mountaines of fleeting Ise nor yet presente death dayly before their face coulde anye whit dismaye or cause to desiste from intended enterpises but rather preferring an honourable death beefore a shamefull retourne haue notwithstanding the former daungers after manye perillous repulses recouered their desired Porte So that if nowe the passage to CATAYA thereby be made open vnto vs which only matter hitherto hath occupied the finest heades of the worlde and promiseth vs a more riches by a nearer way than either Spaine or Portugale possesseth whereof the hope by the good industrie and greate attemptes of these men is greatelye augmented or if the Golde Ore in these new Discoueries founde oute doe in goodnesse as in great plentie aunswere expectation and the successe do folow as good as the proofe thereof hitherto made is great wee may truely inferre that the Englishman in these our dayes in his discoueries to the Spaniarde and Portingale is nothing inferior and for his hard aduentures and valiant resolutions greatly superior For what hath the Spaniarde or Portingale done by the Southeast and Southweast that the Englishman by the Northeast and Northweaste hath not counteruailed the same And albeit I confesse that the Englishe haue not hytherto had so ful successe of profit and commoditie of pleasaunt place considering that the former nations haue happily chanced to trauel by more temperate clymates where they had not onlye good meates and drinkes but all other things necessarie for the vse of man all whiche things the English trauelling by more intēperate places as it were with mayne force making waye thorowe seas of Ise haue wāted which notwithstanding argueth a more resolution for Difficiliora pulchriora that is the aduēture the more hard the more honorable yet concerning the perfecter knowledge of the world and Geographicall description wherin the present age and posteritie also by a more vniuersal vnderstāding is much furthered as appeareth by my vniuersall Mappe with pricked boundes here annexed herein the Englishman deserueth chiefe honor aboue any other For neyther Spaniard nor Portugale nor anye other besides the English haue bin found by so great daungers of Ise so neare the Pole to aduenture any discouerie wherby the obscure and vnknowen partes of the world which otherwise had laine hid haue bin made knowen vnto vs. So that it may appeare that by oure Englishmens industries and these late voyages the world is grown to a more fulnesse and perfection many vnknowen lands and Ilands not so much as thought vpon before made knowen vnto vs Christs name spred the Gospell preached Infidels like to be conuerted to Christianitie in places where before the name of God hath not once bin hearde of Shipping and Seafaring mē haue ben employed nauigation and the Nauie which is the chief strength of our Realm maintayned and Gentlemen in the Sea seruice for the better seruice of their Country wel experienced Al whiche things are no doubt of so gret importāce as being wel wayed may seeme to counteruayle the aduentures charges although the passage to CATAYA were not found out neither yet the golde ore proue good wher of both the hope is good gret But notwithstanding all these euen in this if no otherwise hyr most excellent Maiestie hath reaped no small profit that she may now stand assured to haue many more tried able sufficient men against time of need that are which with out vaūt may be spoken of valour gret for any great aduēture of gouernemēt good for any good place of seruice For this may truly be spoken of these men that there hath not bin seene in any nation being so many in nūber so far frō home more ciuill order better gouernement or agreement For euen from the beginning of the seruice hitherto there hath neither passed mutinie quarrel or notorious fact either to the slaunder of the men or daunger of the voyage although the Gentlemen Souldiors and Marriners whiche seldome can agree were by companies matched togither But I may perchaunce right Honourable seeme to discourse somewhat too largely especially in a cause that as a partie somewhat concerneth my selfe which I doe not for that I doubt of your Honorable opinion already conceiued of the men but for that I knowe the ignorant multitude is rather ready to slaunder than to giue good encouragement by due commendation to good causes who respecting nothing but a present gaine and being more than needefully suspitious of the matter do therwithall condemne the men and that without any further respect either of their honest intents either of their wel performing the matter they dyd vndertake whiche according to their direction was specicially to bring home Ore either else of their painful trauel whiche for their Prince and the publike profite of their Countries cause they haue sustained But by the way it is not vnknown to the world that this our natiue country of England in al ages hath bred vp and specially at this present aboūdeth with many forward and valiāt minds fit to take in hād any notable enterprise wher by appeareth that if the Englishman had bin in times paste as fortunate and foreseeing to accept occasion offered as he hath bin alwayes forwarde in executing anye cause once taken in hand he had bin worthily preferred before all nations of the worlde and the Weast Indies had now bin in the possession of the Englishe For Columbus the firste Discouerer of the Weaste Indies made firste offer thereof with his seruice to King Henry the seauenth then Kyng of Englande and was not accepted Wherevppon for want of entertainement here hee was forced to go into Spaine and offred there as before the same to Ferdinando Kyng of Castyle who presently acceptyng the occasion did first himselfe and now his successors enioy the benefite thereof Also Sebastian Cabota being an Englishman and borne in Bristowe after he had discouered sundrie parts of new found lande and attempted the passage to CATAYA by the Northweast for the King of England for lacke of entertainment here notwithstanding his good desert was forced to seeke to the Kyng of Spaine to whose vse hee discouered all that tract of Brasile aboute the famous riuer Rio de la Plata and for the same and other good seruices

reason that when the Sun setteth to them vnder the Equinoctiall it goeth very déep lowe vnder their Horizon almost euen to their Antipodes whereby their twylights are very shorte and their nightes are made verye extreame darke and long and so the moysture and coldenesse of the long nightes wonderfully encreaseth so that at length the Sun rising can hardly in many houres consume and driue away the colde humoures and moyst vapours of the nighte paste which is cleane contrarye in the Paralel of Paris For the Sun goeth vnder their Horizon but verye little after a sloping forte whereby their nights are not verye darke but lightsome as looking into the North in a cleare night withoute cloudes it doeth manifestlye appeare their twilightes are long for the Paralel Cancer cutteth not the Horizon of Paris at right angles but at angles very vneuen and vnlike as it doth the Horizon of the Equinoctiall Also the Sommer day at Paris is sixtéene houres long and the nighte but eight where contrariwise vnder the Equinoctial the day is but twelue houres long and so long is also the nighte in what soeuer Paralell the Sunbe and therefore looke what oddes and difference of proportion there is betwéene the Sunnes abode aboue the Horizon in Paris and the abode it hath vnder the Equinoctiall it being in Cancer the same proportion woulde séeme to be betwéen the heate of the one place and heate of the other for other things as the angle of the whole acke of the Sunnes progresse that day in both places are equall But vnder the Equinoctiall the presence and abode of the Sunne aboue the Horizon is equall to his absence and abode vnder the Horizon eache being twelue houres And at Paris the continuaunce and abode of the Sunne is aboue the Horizon sixteene houres long and but eight hours absence whiche proportion is double from whiche if the proportion of the equalitie be subtrahed to find the difference there will remaine stil a double proportion whereby it séemeth to followe that in Iune the heate at Paris were double to the heate vnder the Equinoctiall For as I haue saide the angle of the Sunne beames are in all pointes equall and the cause of difference is Mora Solis supra Horizontem the staye of the Sunne in the one Horizon more than in the other Therefore whosoeuer coulde finde out in what proportion the angle of the Sunne beames heateth and what encrease the Sunnes continuaunce doeth adde therevnto it might expresly be sette downe what force of heate and colde is in all regions Thus you partely sée by comparing a Clymate to vs well knowne and familiarlye acquainted by lyke height of the Sunne in bothe places that vnder the Equinoctiall in Iune is no excessiue heate but a temperate ayre rather tending to colde For as they haue there for the moste parte a continuall moderate heate so yet sometime they are a little pintched wyth colde and vse the benefite of Fyre as well as wée especiallye in the euenyng when they goe to bedde for as they lye in hanging beddes tyed faste in the vpper parte of the house so wyll they haue fyres made on both sides their bed of whych two fires that one they deuise superstitiouslye to driue awaye Spyrites and the other to kéep away from them the coldenesse of the nights Al●o in manye places of Torrida Zona especially in the higher landes somewhat mountainous the people a little shrincke at the colde and are often forced to prouide themselues clothing so that the Spaniards haue found in the West Indies many people clothed especially in Winter whereby appeareth that with their heate there is colde intermingled else would they neuer prouide this remedy of clothing which to them is rather a griefe trouble than otherwise For when they go to warres they wil putte off al their apparell thinking it to be combersome and will alwayes goe naked that they thereby mighte bée more nymble in their fight Some there be that thinke the middle Zone extreme hote bycause the people of that Countrie can liue withoute clothing wherein they childishly are deceiued for oure clime rather tendeth to extreamitie of colde bicause we cannot liue without clothing for this our dubble lining furring wearing so many cloths is a remedy against extremitie argueth not the goodnesse of that habitation but incoueniēce iniury of cold that is rather the moderate tēperate delectable habitation where none of these troublesome things are required but that we may liue naked bare as nature bringeth vs forth Others again imagine the midle Zone to be extreme hote bycause the people of Affrica especially the Ethiopians are so cole blacke their haire like wooll ●urled shor twhich blacknesse crooked haire they suppose to come only by the parching heate of the Sun which how it should be possible I cannot sée For euē vnder the Equinoctiall in America in the East Indies in the Ilāds Moluccae that people are not blacke but white with lōg haire vncurled as we haue so that if the Ethiopians blacknesse came by the heate of the Sun why should not those Americans and Indians also bée as blacke as they séeyng the Sunne is equally distant frō them both they abiding in one paralel for the concaue and cōuexs Superficies of the Orbe of the Sun is concentrike and equidistant to the earth except any man should imagine somwhat of Aux Solis Oppositum whiche indiff●r●ntly may be applied aswel to the one place as to the other But y same is thought to giue no otherwise heate but by way of angle in reflection not by his néerenesse for throughout all Africa yea in the middest of the middle and in al oth●r places vpon the tops of Moūtains there lyeth cōtinuall Snow which is neerer to the Orbe of the Sunne than the people are in the valley by so muche as the height of these Mountaynes amount vnto and yet the Sunne notwithstanding his nerenesse can not melt the Snow for want of conuenient place of reflections Also the middle region of the Ayre where all the Hayle Frost and Snowe is engendred is néerer vnto the Sunne than the earth is and yet there continueth perpetuall colde bycause there is nothing that the Sunnes beames may reflect against whereby appeareth the néerenesse of the body of the Sunne worketh nothing Therfore to returne again to the blacke Moores I my selfe haue séene an Ethiopian as blacke as a cole broughte into Englande who taking a faire Englishe woman to Wife begatte a Sonne in all respectes as blacke as the Father was although England were his natiue Countrey an English woman his Mother whereby it séemeth this blacknesse procéedeth rather of some naturall infection of that man whiche was so strong that neyther the nature of the Clime neyther the good complexion of the Mother concurring coulde any thing alter and therefore we can not impute it to the nature of the Clime And