Hoei shin biography meaning

With current historical scholarship, none but the most myopically Eurocentric embrace the myth that Columbus "discovered" America in 1492. That feat, we now know, was accomplished tens of thousands of years ago by a small band of Chinese, the ancestors of Native Americans, who crossed over the Bering Strait into the Western hemisphere.

The more we search for the first recorded visits to our Northwest Coast, the more fascinating the mystery becomes.

Some years ago a portion of an early chart from the North Pacific was reproduced as the end papers of a book on local history. Outlines of the coast and entries about Spanish and Russian discoveries date it prior to the voyages of Captains Cook and Vancouver.

Fusang: Contents - Internet Sacred Text Archive

One entry reads "Land which is supposed to be FOU SENG of the Chinese Geographers", this begins about 50° north. Also it is remarked that this is the "Coast seen by the Spanish in 1771 with inhabitants which go naked".

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