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Fwd: Don't forget Madoc, Prince of Wales
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> According to ancient Chinese legend a small boat
> captained by Huai Yuan was blown off course, and it
> ran ahead of the wind for days. When it stopped,
> finally, it ran aground on land which "faced the
> setting sun."
> This land was populated with many strange people and
> animals. America?
>
> The assumption had always been that this was just a
> legend. The idea that a small boat could survive
> being blown across thousands of miles of open water,
> and then sail back to tell of it seemed impossible.
>
>
> Still, the legends persist, and so it is possible
> that
> Chinese sailors were early visitors to the Americas,
> too. Obviously, nothing came of the visit.
>
> Xiamen Lee
>
>
>
>
>
> One also can't forget Leif Erikson, who made it to
> Newfoundland
> around
> the same time. There are also stories among the
> Iclandic Sagas of
> their warriors arriving on the coast of
> Canada/Newfoundland and
> being
> expelled the first few times by the fierce natives,
> and some rather
> Northern European traits among those Native
> Americans as well.
> -----Original Message----- From: Dean DeBolt
> <ddebolt@MAIL.UWF.EDU>
> To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU> Date:
> Tuesday, October 10, 2000 9:59 AM Subject:
> [ARCHIVES] Don't
> forget
> Madoc, Prince of Wales
>
>
> I did a wonderful historiographical paper for the
> Gulf Coast
> History and Humanities Conference back in 1991 or
> 1992
> about the story and legend of Prince Madoc of Wales
> who
> reputedly sailed into Mobile Bay about 900 A.D. and
> whose
> Welsh culture was absorbed into the Native
> Americans.
> Echoes of this legend are shown by rumors of Welsh
> Indians,
> Elizabeth I's claim to North America as English by
> right of
> title from Madoc (led to Roanoke and Jamestown
> settlement),
> Jefferson's instructions to Lewis and Clark to look
> for the
> Welsh Indians in their exploration of the Louisiana
> Territory,
> and the discovery of a unique farming,
> "coracle-like" boat
> building, mud/thatch hut-living Indian tribe on the
> upper waters of
> the Missouri, the Mandans---and the later paintings
> of them by George
> Catlin who was struck by their blue-eyes and
> "european" features.
> It was a lot of fun tracing this story through time
> and while we may
> never know the answer, it is a good a contender as
> any for
> pre-Columbian "visits" to America.
>
> Dean
>
> Dean DeBolt
> University Librarian
>
>
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