He mentions the
second voyage of Madoc, but cites no authority.]
"This Madoc arriving in that westerne countrie, unto the which
he came, in the year 1170, left most of his people there: and
returning backe for more of his owne nation, acquaintance and
freends, to inhabite that faire and large countrie: went thither
againe with ten sailes, as I find noted by Gutyn Owen. I am of
opinion that the land, wherevnto he came, was some part of
Mexico:" etc.--David Powel, S.T.P., note in _The historie of
Cambria_, 1584. 4 deg.. p. 229.
[The learned Powel relies on the authority of the poet Gutyn
Owen. "He wrote," says W. Owen, "between A.D. 1460 and
1490"--three centuries after the event in question!]
_Ethnographic evidence._
"They came [anno 1536] to part of the West Indies about Cape
Breton, shaping their course thence north-eastwards, vntill they
camme to the Island of Penguin," etc.--The voyage of master
Hore, in _The principall navigations_, etc. 1589. Fol.
[Antiquaries consider the mention of _Cape Breton_ and _Penguin
Island_ as evidence. It cannot prove much, as the particulars
were not committed to writing till about half-a-century after
the voyage.]
"There is also another kinde of foule in that countrey [between
the Gulf of Mexico and Cape Breton] .
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