British Author claims the Chinese, not Columbus, found America First

The Sacramento Bee ^ | Tuesday, January 7, 2003 | Ted Bell

[yankeedame]

Have at it, gang!

[Commander8]

Neither found it first. It was either the Irish or the Vikings.

[Bonaparte]

What tripe! Everybody knows the Raelian Aliens discovered America, using continent-sniffing Chinese dogs.

[Diana Rose]

claims that America was discovered by Chinese explorers 70 years before Columbus

Well they will just have to stand in line. Pre-Columbia America appears to have been a damn Stop-N-Shop.

[friendly]

Bogus beyond belief.

[crystalk]

The book "Pale Ink," which was later published in paperback a few copies with the sensational title "Gods from the Far East..." says all of this better, a generation or two ago.

We know the Chinese were in N America in antiquity, including perhaps an attempt at Buddhist missionizing in the 400's AD.

Deep in antiquity, Chinese explorers had no doubt tried to survey America in their way, and there is a reference in the Chinese classics to the "Great Eastern Waste" and to the Grand Canyon.

The best evidence is a reference to the width of the Pacific as so many li, about correct, and then say the Great Eastern Waste is reached, and if it is crossed, [again a number of li is given, about correct at 3000 miles]...another ocean is found, great and blue and trackless.

[DoughtyOne]

Are the families going to allow THIS guy to reveal the DNA evidence? I didn't think so. Perhaps an identical clone story will be born next week. We can only hope.

[DoughtyOne]

There ya go. You're too quick.

[Caipirabob]

Oh well, jig's up. We'd best return it to the Chinese and go back from where we came from.

[crystalk]

I wrote in a paper in college, generations ago, that "there was probably scarcely a decade from 2500 BC to 1500 AD, in which some ship or other, carrying some unfortunates more or less, did NOT fetch up somewhere on the American continents, ...mostly carrying dying survivors on their last legs, desperately in need of assistance, which the empty continents in their howling savagery could never have provided."

[Shermy]

I thought it was the Indians.

[socal_parrot]

I found some Chinese food in the back of my fridge that looked to be pre-Columbian.

[Dan Day]

Even if it's true, there's this little item: "Two years later, seven ships returned and the Ming emperor ordered them all to be dismantled, the sailors paid off and all records of the voyage destroyed. "

Being a discoverer is worthless if you bury all knowledge of what you have discovered. Columbus still deserves credit for discovering America, and opening the door for its use, dramatically changing human history.

[DannyTN]

No no it was the Japanese.

They just weren't comfortable in wide open spaces, so they went back home.

Shouldn't the native American Indians get credit for discovering America. I mean, it's like they were already comfortable here when Columbus showed up.

[Bonaparte]

The way I heard it was that the great explorer Nobuti Sosumi hoped to finance the voyage with all the golf courses and Karaoke singing blondes this fabled land was said to possess. Returning empty-handed, his principle investor, a hot-headed shogun, beheaded him before his lawyers could file against him. His ghost is said to haunt the Tokyo pachinko parlors to this very day.

[safisoft]

Nope. Samaritan, or Jews from around the first Century.

The New Mexico Decalogue

The Ohio Decalogue

[Fiddlstix]

The book "Pale Ink," which was later published in paperback a few copies with the sensational title "Gods from the Far East..." says all of this better, a generation or two ago.

Good grief. I hadn't thought about that book in years. I still have a copy. Pale Ink by Henriette Mertz originally published in 1953. (Along about the time of the book "Worlds in Collision" by Immanuel Velikovsky)

Later sometime in the 70's it was published again with the Title: God's from the far east.
The second title was due to the popularity at that time of one Erich Von Däniken and his book: Chariots of the gods
After Von Däniken's success with his "gods" book(s), everybody "jumped on the old band wagon" with a "gods" title and that even brought back into print the long forgotten work of Velikovsky and others including Pale Ink with a "gods" title.

I had almost forgotten about all the Von Däniken inspired hullabaloo till you remined me

Take care
God Bless

[arthurus]

Considering the ancient red headed mummies found in North China it is not absurd to think that these folks' relatives also joined the parade across the land bridge. Or led it, even.

[Centurion2000]

So let me guess, China is now going to claim American territory like it does with Taiwan as belonging to us from antiquity.