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.

The reason alleadged for proofe of the contrary may be disproued after this maner.  And first it may be called in controuersie, whether any current continually be forced by the motion of Primum mobile, round about the world, or no:  For learned men doe diuersly handle that question. [Sidenote:  Luc. lib. 1.  Pharsal.] The naturall course of all waters is downeward, wherefore of congruence they fall that way where they finde the earth most lowe and deepe:  in respect whereof, it was erst sayd, the seas doe strike from the Northern landes Southerly.  Violently the seas are tossed and troubled diuers wayes with the windes, encreased and diminished by the course of the Moone, hoised vp and downe through the sundry operations of the Sunne and the starres:  finally, some be of opinion, that the seas be carried in part violently about the world, after the dayly motion of the highest moueable heauen, in like maner as the elements of ayre and fire, with the rest of the heauenly spheres, are from the East vnto the West. [Sidenote:  What the Easterne current is.] And this they doe call their Easterne current, or leuant stream.  Some such current may not be denied to be of great force in the hot Zone, for the neerenesse thereof vnto the centre of the Sunne, and blustering Easterne windes violently driuing the seas Westwards:  howbeit,