Wouldn't surprise me. The Polynesians located the Hawaiian Islands, tiny specks of land isolated in the middle of a vast ocean desert. And they located Easter Island, which is even more remote. You wanna tell me they couldn't find a gigantic continent further to the west?
- ThreeTracks
We ought to face facts...the Chinese likely visited before Columbus. The Polynesians likely visited before Columbus. The Vikings likely came before Columbus.
And the American Indian may have to get used to the idea that white Europeans may have arrived 10,000 years ago as well.
According to the history of the Coast Salish People the village of Tofino, on the West Coast of Vancouver Island, had a colony of Hawaiian traders living on Vancouverer Island one hundred years before the reign of Chief Maquinna.
As late as the seventeenth century.
This was reported in the diaries of several English and Russian castaways.