About the same time, Sir Thomas Herbert published his Travels, in which he mentions Prince Madog’s Voyages.  His Narrative, in some things not material to the question before us, differs from Llwyd and Powel.  He adds that David the Son of Owen Gwynedd having slain his illegimate Brother Howel in Battle, was best approved of, and chosen Prince of North Wales; because by the comeliness of his Person, and Ingenuity, he had gained the affections of the Lady Emma Plantagenet, Sister to King Henry the Second.[bb] This Writer must have seen Llwyd’s and Powel’s Account, and adds, that Madog after his last Voyage, returned no more.[cc.]

[Footnote bb:  Warrington’s History of Wales, p. 312.  Edit. 1788.]

[Footnote cc:  Herbert’s Travels, p. 394, &c.  The Differences we find between the Writers who have mentioned prince Madog’s Voyages, seem to imply that they derived their Information form different Sources.]

The Language and Customs of the Indians, will be noticed hereafter.

To these Evidences must be added what the Authors of the universal History, and Dr. Campbell, in his Naval History of Great Britain, have said.

“That the Welsh contributed towards the peopleing of America is intimated by some good Authors, and ought to be considered as a Notion supported by something more than bare Conjectures.  Powel, in his History of Wales informs us that a War happening in that Country for the Succession, upon the death of Owen Gwyneth.  A. D. 1170, and a Bastard having carried it from his lawful Sons, one of the latter, called, Madog, put to Sea for new Discoveries, and sailing West from Spain, he discovered a New World of wonderful Beauty and Fertility.  But finding this uninhabited, upon his return, he carried thither a great Number of People from Wales.  To this delightful Country he made three Voyages, according to Hakluyt.  The Places he discovered seem to be Virginia, New England, and the adjacent Countries.  In Confirmation of this, Peter Martyr says that the Natives of Virginia and Guatimala celebrated the Memory of one Madoc as a great and ancient Hero, and hence it came to pass that Modern Travellers have found several Old British Words among the Inhabitants of North America; Matec Zunga and Mat Inga as being in use among the Guatimallians, in which there is a plain allusion to Madoc, and that with the D softened into T, according to the Welsh manner of pronunciation.  Nay, Bishop Nicolson seems to believe that the Welsh Language makes a considerable part of several of the American Tongues.  According to a famous British Antiquary, the Spainards borrowed their double L. (LL) from the people of Mexico, who received it from the Welsh; and the Dutch brought a Bird with a white Head from the Streights of Magellan, called by the Natives, Penguin, which word in the Old British (and in Modern British) signifies ‘White Head;’ and therefore seems Originally to have come from Wales.  This must be allowed an additional Argument, to omit others that occur in Favour of Madoc’s three American Expeditions."[dd]