and of the 2d Chapter, Ex Hispana Curia tertio Calend Maii 1494.  See also the 10th Chapter of the 2d Decade.  Columbus sailed on his first Voyage in the Autumn of of 1492, and returned about February or March, 1493.  Hence it appears that Peter Martyr was in the Spanish Court when Columbus returned from his first Voyage; for his first Letter is dated about 6 or 7 Months afterwards.  Peter Martyr, therefore, ought to be considered as a decisive Evidence that some Nations in America, honored the Memory of one Madog, when Columbus landed on that Coast.

See Nouveau Dictionaire Historique, Ou Histoire abregee, &c. par une Sociate’ de gens de Letres 6mo.  Edition. 1786, Paris.]

This Author in the former part of this Chapter, says, Nam ubi demonstratum suerit, Madocum cambriae principem olim cum fuae Gentis Hominibus novas in Occidente invenisse Terras et inhabitasse:  ejus etiam nomen ac memoriam adhuc inter barbaros superesse, nihil fere quod amplius ambigamus, restabit.  “For when it is demonstrated that Madog, a Prince of Cambria, with some of his Nation, discovered and inhabited some Lands in the West, and that his Name and Memory are still retained among them, scarcely any doubt remains.”

In the above observations, we have as it appears to me, a clear proof that Madog visited America, several centuries before the Spaniards.  Matec Zungam, and Mat Jngam, seem to be plain corruptions of the Name, Madog, the Hero whose Memory was retained, if not revered, by those who were descended from his Colony.

In the Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol.  X, for the Year 1740. p. 103, &c. the following Narrative is inserted.

“These presents may certify all persons whatever, that in the Year 1660, being an Inhabitant of Virginia, and Chaplain to Major General Bennet of Mansoman County, the said Major Bennet find Sir William Berkeley sent two Ships to Port Royal, now called South Carolina, which is sixty Leagues to the Southward of Capefair, and I was sent therewith to be their Minister.  Upon the 8th of April we set out from Virginia, and arrived at the Harbour’s Mouth of Port Royal the 19th of the same Month, where we waited for the rest of the Fleet that was to sail from Barbadoes and Bermuda with one Mr. West, who was to be Deputy Governor of the said Place.  As soon as the Fleet came in, the smallest Vessels that were with us sailed up the River to a place called the Oyster Point.  There I continued about 8 months, all which time being almost starved for want of provisions, I and 5 more travelled through the Wilderness, till we came to the Tuscorara Country.  There the Tuscorara Indians took us prisioners, because we told them that we were bound to Roanock.[n] That night they carried us to their Town, and shut us up close to our no small dread.  The next Day they entered into a consultation about us, which after it was over their Interpreter told us that we must prepare ourselves to die next Morning.  Whereupon being very much dejected and speaking to