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If by sailing northward he could find the Strait of Anian, then his homeward journey would be safe and short; but if he could not find that illusive body of water, then there was left to him but the Pacific for a highway. However, this did not daunt him, as he felt that what the Portuguese Magellan had done, Drake the Englishman could do.
To prooue by reason, a passage to be on the Northside of America, to goe to Cataia, &c. 2 Also if that America were not an Island, but a part of the continent adioyning to Asia, either the people which inhabite Mangia, Anian, and Quinsay, &c. being borderers vpon it, would before this time haue made some road into it hoping to haue found some like commodities to their owne.
Tertullian de Anima, C. 49, thence calls them Incubatores fanorum. Lib. XI. p. 108. Paris, fol. 1620. Ibid. lib. XVI. p. 761. De situ orbis, lib. I. cap. 1. Plutarch apud Agis et Cleomen. There was a similar oracle in the neighbourhood of Thalame, not fur from Aetylum, sacred to Ino. Strabo, lib. VI. p, 284. Pausanias, 1, 35. De vita Apoll. Thyan, 11. 37. Strabo, lib. xvii. p. 801. Anian. Exped.
But in Magellan strait we are violently driven back westward, ergo through the north-western strait or Anian frith shall we not be able to return eastward: it followeth not. The first, for that the north-western strait hath more sea room at the least by one hundred English miles than Magellan's strait hath, the only want whereof causeth all narrow passages generally to be most violent.
The first, under Cabrillo, was sent out by the viceroy Mendoza, who hoped to gain fame and riches by the discovery of the Strait of Anian, and by finding wealthy countries and cities which were supposed to exist in the great northwest, about which much was imagined but nothing known.
Also, if that America were not an island, but a part of the continent adjoining to Asia, either the people which inhabit Mangia, Anian, and Quinzay, etc., being borderers upon it, would before this time have made some road into it, hoping to have found some like commodities to their own.
Paulus Venetus, who dwelt many yeres in Cataia, affirmed that hee sayled 1500 miles vpon the coastes of Mangia, and Anian, towards the Northeast: alwayes finding the Seas open before him, not onely as farre as he went, but also as farre as he could discerne. By whose experiences America is prooued to be separate from those parts of Asia, directly against the same.
So would I say in the Anian gulfe, if it were so narrow as Don Diego and Zalterius haue painted it out, any returne that way to bee full of difficulties, in respect of such streightnesse thereof, not for the neerenesse of the Sunne, or Easterne windes violently forcing that way any leuant streame: But in that place there is more sea roome by many degrees, if the Cardes of Cabota, and Gemma Frisius, and that which Tramezine imprinted be true.
He was absent two years and seven months, and in that time he collected a vast amount of useful and strange information, besides learning the language of the Indians among whom he lived. By the Straits of Anian, we are to suppose, were meant some part of Behring's Straits, separating Asia from the American continent.
He sailed for months down the eastern shore of the new land, and discovered, far away to the south, a strait through which he reached the great South Sea, but then he still sailed on for nearly a year before he came to the Spice Islands and Asia. This passage is called the Strait of Anian. Four different expeditions he sent out to explore this coast: most of them at his own cost.
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