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THE OKLAHOMA STATU CAPITAL: Sl'XDAY MOKNINU, MATCH 21. 1 '■
((i 1 The Discovery of America.
j '4 .is
hut
Wrltteji for tho Ht
Speaking "f I )ir i r<. r i v • f fal' limera ti
In his KiiKltsh Trulls *.i\h !l I- -ir.n.i:'
that the Nt-w VVi.ri.l m si wciir tin nain.
of a thief. Ani'-rlK" \ - - • 1 .ti • kit--
dealer of Bevllb who w*Hl out, in Htt
u aubalteru Willi 11 •• i >
highest ii i . i ''il v\ i • w ,
mats In an « x1 i' h.ii * • <-r
manned in tin n w«.ri■ I ' r-i'i
<loluml'uh .ii, i> . • 1 i v\
hlB OWn dlsllotK I i 111.
While then- is !>.. rl'.wl.t is to the truth j
of the gen•• ml i r<■ '• 1 >' A \
the wall known fact that Columbua wm
not the ri-.i 1 -Ii* • vmeri. .. 'I:1
Illustration cannot bi regarded very!
happy. NMI I • ■' one knows that tli
Norsemen >1
ninth, possil
not many are -■" " ' '• "r
th«-ir exploration tnd settlement in tha
New Worhl
When I m • ft1' "■ erv ' f
Anwrlni I nee Hi" term n ■ • 1,1
atlve si ne.-. No know wh" "
really the first dUK-ov<-rer of Amer
Quatrefnge* mtvc \mei.-n In- '' •'' '|, r
quuternary man Thin would e,nr\ '
Met Heme nt hnek """ >eiirn There s .ins
to ba .no doubt that In Rurope man waa
the contemporary "f the e.i\- i- ar and
WOOly rht • ► H-r .11 >ni I
over, dispute the evi«l«*n« '
quaternary msn in Amenta and i •" the
present tha finesti<• 11 may he rt|trd(4 aa
itn open one.
There are tradition-) of th settl- ment "i
A merit* a from various dir.'-Hons n •«
there fi'm no reasonable doubt that the
native races are of . mixed am e«tn
Setting a id. tradition and myth, the
most reaaonahle ron.1. .-lure Is thai th<
real dlseoverer of Ann ri< a was tin- ime
Imm aavasi who flrat crowed Behring
Straits from Kan— I tK.i Into Alaska
and thence colonised th «ountrj it la
entire!'. possll l< h"\\- ' ' • •'
able that Amen i ma- l-avt • • u 1
nized from Polynesia, from China fron.
Africa W( know lh'"
the llalsy trlbea puahed their aetth •
•a at ward from Island t" island as far as
Hawaii
historic a!
There
some "f them ni '
America.
Ancient Chin* ' • ,K • s!
try - all. •! F"w
n dlstatiru / of 10.00"
fist ol' I'lilna wv Ii •> .
tied with A met t> i The
aaetn almost > -oik -lu.-d\
in«« the following: Abandoned Junks
have been found stranded on the shores
««f California, carried across the O asn
l.y tha oKuri Blvo, or BIa< i. < urrant < m.i
Chinese Mas contain drawings of the
lama, and apeak of It as a horse, re-
ferring no doubl I" t i «• list' made* "f
the anlniHl. The (ieogratia d*d Peru,
by Pas Soldan, contains this paasacs
"Th. Inhabitants of the village of Kt *n
in the province of Ijambayeque and th--
department "f Ubertad seem to be
long to a differ* nt ia■ front th.>s- "f j
the surrounding < ninlii >■*. Th- li\'-
nnd lntermarr\ only araongs^ them-
selves. and speak a language w hi
'cHfiriii.
.•an colonization but his argument
Huni"^vhitt dlff. mi i from I " '"• ' •' ^
montlons primarily the Kuuatorial
rent which opens a roU'* hadiiikr In
Africa t>> America and refers to • . i«le.
rare It Is true showing that wrcc
have been carried In th: < dire. n...i.
thinks It Js possible that
full blooded /.
complexion may
vlth
Indiiti
ha |
ml tn
ick populati'
II.
Iully
ici'ii found In Amerlc
umbers only.'' and
Ivlng in the midst o|
nch as the c'h irrutis •
'at rubers of St. Vila.
Icxioi. tha Jamassi ••
• h h<-
ind the hair
thla divers it j
lark me
id i
lathmi
ys: "The ancient
In th" latitude
as black as lh *
I myself have
ndians in Lower
leal account ol tha« migration, m* oi ■ ivii
items no reason to doubt that Another- lor
sltuut
eason* for this
Among them
tie I vet. and speak a latlKUHtfc Will.ll is v
p. rfe.uy unii.-r.l.w.a h> Hi.- rhlin-t.- •" '
nfm have been hi. .<hi to I'efU dui '". n. •>< • •
ught
ears. ' Gomar.i. a
with Cortez in Mex-
anh'iia of ('oronado.
Western
Lat. mo
tin
had fc
ors b;
thirty da:
led had con
This story
d been
h. and
e from
who I lav
In; Ihe last few
Spaniard who w i
lco says that r
in sailing up ti
As 40 il.'i!... N
merchi.toi -
to Ulldei stand '
nt sea nun. th.
whirh the>
Cathay i" 'l.,i .
roborated b] testlmonsi of .'*i ^sti
Indian w ho wu.h -.j to visit the home of
his ancc-tois and n tiiis quest tia\
eled north until he ica« lied the Mis
Fourl RiM t \\ h i h. as- ended and
1 hence rn'sscs the mountains to another
river whi' b In- ■<■■■■*■ • nd - I the >••. .
This rive- h.j.s b. en Identitlcd us the
Oregi'*n. I i i I • heard > f in 1 pro
vlded with arms hntiln* thundei and
v ho faiiw every > ear in a gn at boat
looking for wood which they used in
dyeing Prom \ a ' ions d -tails of the
narrative ti ■; n« persons are supposed
to hsv^ bean pantse Another ciroum
stance is that .hid Heads are found
in anctei t v -t • toml s Js Is ht g
found onlv in Chin-i the other
day there was an account in the papers
of the discovery in Mexico of exten-
sive ruins with inscriptions beltev-d to
be in Chinese lie* in Savans ars
arranging t< ha\e these int. iptn ns
examlio d l v Chinese ■ i - d
th*ir dlsi oven Is regarded as strong if
not conclusive evident!- of .ai!> ' Illn-
ess colont. ition 'ti M\i To thes •
facts ma> b. 1 !. I the uumtstakabl
• . 111 . i k.- t
in America In those r
washed by either tin 1
the equatorial cut rent ■
Halbou in * roasing
I>arien saw some bia
would se«-m from exp
(iomara were tru<-
In his I'readamites .- .
Indians of California
of -12 degrees, we...
negroes of (iuinea
seen some of these 1
California, but th* y bore no r- • m- j
blanco to negroes that 1 could sec save |
in color.
Besides these, there are Phoetii. Ian .
and Carthaginian traditions of Ann r j
ban colonisation, also Basque pr.t"ti- j
sions, supported by facts which Qua- j
terfages thinks are ' curious to say the I
least ' There are also Welch and
Irish traditions which Humboldt i
thought well worthy of att< tition.
Thus we have Malay. Mongolian
< bines#', Japanese. Welch. Irish, Bas-
que, Phoenician, Carthnglntgn. and N
j*ro possibilities of settlem«-nt in Am*-r-
i< a. But this is not all. Then- are
evidences of white colonisation lon i
anterior to the historic period Th -
Peruviana had a legend of "certain ,
.white and bearded men, who ad-anc-
' itiR froni the shores *>f hake Titn aca,
I established an ascendency over th- na-
tives and Imparled to them the bless-
ing of civilization.'' (Prescott Perm
the legend represents
pair of beings. Mama Oello and Man-
co t'apac, children of the sun. of fair
skin, who taught the aits of . ivili/a-
tion. The words "Mama" and "Papa
in this legend, meaning respectively
mother and father, have be-n legardcl
as a siiiKUlar coincident e. Tht v are
ancient Sanscrit words found in all th
Japhetic languages and it has been
argued thence that these beiims must
have come from the old world It
seems easier to believe that these
names were borrowed Iroin the Span
ish than that they were original ndlan
words.
It was a very general tradition
among th- Indians that t lr
anscestors were white. The le-
Kend " f Manco Capac and Mama
" 'elin implies that these beings w<-re
white and that they cam- from the
east, because they were "Children of
the sun." The sun comes from th*
east and is light or white. Brinton liu
World" mentions
nds Thus the Al-
gonltlns "tailed those «>f their tribe liv-
ing nearest the rising sun Abnakis. Ii'
. rally, «>ui W hlte An • itors " In the
Quiche legend "All t f th*- earliest tivn
were white children, whit
MaJ.
l.le light e
night
le multit
In tb<
of
d
%'Inland, The Gco l. next U> this nnd
. ■ m.« what Wnlnd >. H Al ' 1
Missi.1 ttt t-, 8ay WhlU -manS'laml. wliUuc.-
!d thai ' :'iu.ny • ' vessels formerly Allied fmm Iceland,
who They have jt Was there thai several Irishman and
t or i it.iir-i icelandera recognlr.e-- Arl, the e" n "f
" i !■• -king They ; Mnr Mnd catia of rteykjanos. whom
nd ha\ there had not bien 1"r a long time any
tidings of. and whom the natives had
made their chief.' Albania corresponds
to New Yorkand if "ne were disposed
to be facltloua, he might comment on
the early sscend^no of the Irish in
those parts as being prophetic.
It Is not my purpose to detail at
length the Norwegian exploration of |
i America but only ' state the fact
' and indicate in a general way the ex- j
tnt of the settlement which the j
Northmen made. It seems almost in- |
1 . redlble that they should hn\ • be -n
! established towns, ' hut lies and tnon- .
| asterles In the N- ' Worhl centuries
I before Columbus m.oie nts celebrafil ,
voyage. But th" evident .-* that they i
! did ho is conclusive. Aside from the j
them- references in old Iceland!' and Norw •- j
.. vmer glan books and si g is, there are ottt
■ pKht r'al records, ns >f the dec re* . f Mar- J
lWS 1 garet of Norway interdi- ling om-norc* !
l, s.t\8 | with Greeland. th. .stablisbtnent of
, )iK . the cathedral with in succession of |
that of J bishops, the tithes paid to the church, i
the letters to the 1'ope. etc. There j
are the minut s. riptions t th.' i
country, from Oivenlaml t • Rhode Is- :
land, and lastly th i. are the ruins ■
of the settlement ■ Mh Runic ins. rip-
tions on rocks wh: Ii have been tie- |
ciphered by northern antiquarb-H. it j
it a strange < hi.]■ * r. "ttly explicable
by considering the astounding ignor-
ance of the world at that period. Print-
ing had not yet been invented and
northern Europe w only emerging
from barbarism. China, the most
ancient of countries- was almost un-
known and Japan quite so, although
Marco Polo anil Sir John Maundeville
had recently brought back from their
travels rumors of . I island east of
China called Zipango, which Is now-
identified with Jiii>.in. The geography
of the perioil was puerile and absurd,
although the sphericity of the earth
was well known and had been from
very early times. Plutarch says, speak-
ing of the philosophers. "Do thev not
make out tin- earth t" • sph re'.. I>o
they not make the Antipodes live like
caterpillars or Pz/.ards. t imed upside
down and clinging to the earth ' Aris-
totle, Seneca, and Plh y held that one
might easily pass from Cadiz to the I li-
lies. Strabo wrote in his geography thai
o navigate from one
• same parallel,
riumbus was famllla rwlth these au-
""" "s;"" I thorltlce and used them in presenting his
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all this evidence It seems
doubt that there may he
of white blood among the
word i
incoming the
which ante-
fiHEAHirGEK t
died >. irs. \s . ere hero upon firm his-
torical ground, although It is in some
respects a strain, chapter. That so i\-
I I >ive a settlement should have been
made in this hemisphere by Kuropeans
and then lost sight of completely Is very
remarkable. The facts as we read
them now In history ure as follows. In
>.77 or pos. bly in 770, Gunborn dis-
covered Greeland. Little notice was
taken of the discovery until the year
t>N2 when Kric, the Ited, who had been
banished from Iceland on account of
ii homicide . onmiitt'd by him. set sail
for the w.M In quest of the 'land dis-
covered by Gunhorn. His search
proved successful and he Imided on a
small Island west of Gape Farewell,
where he passed ihe first winter In
the spring lie \ ent t > survey the main-
land. and finding it covered with ver-
dure. he c;1111•' 1 it Greenland, saying
that a good name would induce people I (l wou|(1 \
lo settle there When the term of • ,n thp nther
his banishment expired, Kric returned
to It eland and in the year 9X6 again
set sail for Greenland
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the idea was in tIs- .t:r
a pilot In the service -.f
tugal, told folunihus th
the west of t'ape Viie <
from the water a pie e
which had evidently heet
Iron Instrument and whi
drifted from some unku
west. I'edr
I s; be
Sea as far
ships with i
I ing a life beyond the da
„ tjuols "in common with many
tribes of the Western I'ontin. r
traditions « f the edvc t ot I
lent visitors of fair < oinph xion 1
('olvinibiaii time* In Mcxie.ui
the early Toilers were of fair ■
and the Aymoras ..died the tit
is, b ad-
The In
bro
trid figure
w..s gueu
of f-ilr coi
old legend
were so II
traditional
•rally the
mark th .t
i Vlro
of Naliautl i.Xatei
of settlers and established himself In
a plate he named Brattahlld. on a
creek called after him. Eric's Fiord.
which soon became a considerable col-
ony. Kri. s Fiord is supposed to be
on the eastern coast of Baffin's I'.ay
in l«at. 60 D.V In the year 997 Lief.
the son of Kric. visited Norway and
was there converted to the doctrines of
Ghriatianity. Upturning to Greenland, j |umbus. had
h>- Introduced the new religion among 1 |>orto Santo, a simi
Hit settlers The rolony proi.per.-il >vhlch huU ,)rlrtc-.l fro.
n.id both the east an.l west coasts . Trilllk8 „f huK,. Jllne
were peopled. These two . -liters w re w ,
called respectively Osterbygd and Vest- | ^z,,r,.s >and the both
erbygd. It appears that the former ,.ast upon the Island of Flore
possessed a cathedral, el"\.n churches. ^atur,.s .uffered from those . t ...
three or four monasteries, two towns race. The old writers mention a
called Garda and Alba, and one liun- ' instances in which strange
(Bred nnd ninety gaards. or Norwegian known men were driven upon th.
villages In the second there were ,^f Europe. Sir Humphrey Oilber
four ' huri h- s and over one hundred r ■ Discourse" written to prov a
u i.n ds. In ! I_'1 an Irishman named j by th- northwest to rat hay '•
I : U | | -1 w IS created Bishop of „ome of th«->- stories as t
i roenluii! nd he had eighteen su - uf firm it h out of Cornelius Nejw
. The tithes of the country I wr.'te fifty-seven years I *f« i ••
!; :ur. ■ I among the revenue* of the that there were certain India-is .i
church c 1 were paid in kind. About a tempest upon the coast of G
the middle of the fourteenth century | which were presented b> the
ht htic-t {Esquimaux) attacked Su.-via unto Quint us Meteilus «•
\ -st. ■ l.\i-d in such force that they , : • consul of Franc. . ■ V
destroyed it. Osterbygd apparently find the s.tuie affirmed more pi
Ii- Id OUt lini. h longer but we do not that ! •: , • l.\ ihe excellent k-
know exactly when it ceased to exist. Dom is Marl s Niger, who
In MIS it paid to the Holy See as j how main ways the Indian S- . st
tit 1 ft • ■ i's Pence 3600 pounds itself, niakli n in that place i
. \\ j t-isks. The last known of . tain Indians that were Ilk' w -
•• m a letter addr-ssed through the \ rtli Sea from 1
t.. I'..] " M. ho'ms V. in 141 v It states | the coasts or Germany by Brett
th; • thirty •- - rs previously some Also, whiles Frederick Barharnsa
king: of i'or
W leagues t
e had tak.
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