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When the ship landed at Galway, on the western coast of Ireland, Columbus may have been an eyewitness to a curious coastal landing. One day, a small boat drifted onto the shore, carrying the bodies of two people. As the dead pair were examined, they appeared to have faces different from the local Irish residents. In fact, they did not look European. Various witnesses decided they had an Oriental
look; some said they looked Chinese.
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Eskimos? Finns?
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>>2561648
This is news to me. Well documented that Eskimos occasionally reached Germany in that era.
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>>2561762
It's from a book I just got. The book is Christopher Columbus and the discovery of the Americas.
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>>2561648
CC was in Iceland at one time, and saw some Church records describing ships and people that may have been Chinese. This may be why he thought he was going to China in 1492.
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>>2561790
Well in the book the author writes that CC was in Iceland and Ireland and that's where he saw the two bodies
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Well natives and Inuits especially have an eastern look to them. I imagine if you stuck a Mongolian and an Inuit in the same room, most people would have difficulty distinguishing which is which
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>>2561762
>Well documented that Eskimos occasionally reached Germany in that era.
Source?
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>>2561912
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