Children often ask, why are American Indians called "Red Men"? They correctly point out that today's Indians look just like ordinary White people.
Of course the answer is that TODAY, they ARE ordinary White people, or mostly ordinary White people. Like modern Egyptians, Berbers, Persians, Mesopotamian's, Jews, and others: they have very little, or nothing, to do with the original people, whose heritage they claim.
Posts: 22721 | Registered: Oct 2005
| IP: Logged |
posted
They persist: but why were they called "Red Men", are there really Red People?
The answer to that question requires a lesson in the original categories of Human Race colors, and in how Human Race works.
Originally there was...
The Black Race: as epitomized by Africans.
The Red Race: as epitomized by American Indians.
The Yellow Race: as epitomized by the Chinese.
The White Race: as epitomized by the Dravidian Albinos of Central Asia.
The list of people above, is in the order of the Melanin content of their skin.
Melanin (Greek: melas, "black, dark") is a broad term for a group of natural pigments found in most organisms. Melanin is produced by the oxidation of the amino acid tyrosine, followed by polymerization. The pigment is produced in a specialized group of cells known as melanocytes. In the skin, melanogenesis occurs after exposure to UV radiation, causing the skin to visibly tan. Melanin is an effective absorber of light; the pigment is able to dissipate over 99.9% of absorbed UV radiation. Because of this property, melanin is thought to protect skin cells from UVB radiation damage, reducing the risk of cancer. Furthermore, though exposure to UV radiation is associated with increased risk of malignant melanoma, a cancer of the melanocytes, studies have shown a lower incidence for skin cancer in individuals with more concentrated melanin, i.e. darker skin tone. Types of melanin
Some of the different types of melanin include eumelanin, pheomelanin and neuromelanin. Eumelanin is found in the hair, skin and dark areas around the nipples. It is particularly abundant among black populations. Eumelanin provides black and brown pigment to the hair, skin and eyes. When eumelanin is present only in small amounts, hair may be blonde. Pheomelanin is also found in the hair and skin. This type of melanin provides pink and red colors and is the main pigment found among red-haired individuals. This type of melanin is not as protective against UV- radiation induced cancer as eumelanin. Neuromelanin is a form of melanin found in different areas of the brain and loss of this melanin may cause several neurological disorders.
Posts: 22721 | Registered: Oct 2005
| IP: Logged |
Clearly then, these two people have in their skin: an overwhelming amount of Eumelanin, and very little or no Pheomelanin.
.
.
Conversely: these two people have in their skin, an overwhelming amount of Pheomelanin, and very little Eumelanin: Thus they are Albinos (OCA2 not the most extreme OCA1): from the Latin "Albus" meaning White.
Posts: 22721 | Registered: Oct 2005
| IP: Logged |
posted
^The above people account for Humans at the extremes of skin colors: all others are a mixture of Blacks and Albinos (or in other words: varying mixtures of Eumelanin and Pheomelanin).
The Yellow Race: as epitomized by the Chinese.
Originally the Chinese had a Yellow "Hue" to their skin, because they were the Mulattoes of the original Mongol type Africans who settled East Asia: these people were later known as the Xia, Shang, and Jomon.
Over time, the Black Africans admixed with Albinos to became the modern Chinese.
Of course everyone remembers that Albinism sometimes STRAIGHTENS Hair.
posted
The Chinese of today are no longer "Yellow". As a matter of fact, due to their distaste for dark skin, and their preference for "Pale" mates:
They are moving ever closer to the "Full" Albinohood of most Europeans. As can be seen in these Chinese crowd photos, today's Chinese people have a noticeable change in facial features, and a definite "Pink" tinge to their skin!
posted
Happily, it seems that some peoples art is catching up to reality. The boys at deviant art are starting to draw American Indians in a more realist (Dark-skinned) way.
Medicine Crow - Apsaroke photo by Edward S. Curtis in 1908
Deviant art coloration
RED WING - Apsaroke photo by Edward S. Curtis in 1908
Deviant art coloration
.
More photos by Edward S. Curtis can be found at this link.
posted
Boy, you must have plenty of time on your hands!
Great job of proving that racism exist within the black elites circles, so that whites need not to worry about being politically correct.
Posts: 496 | From: Greenland | Registered: Mar 2011
| IP: Logged |
quote:Originally posted by Caveman: Boy, you must have plenty of time on your hands!
Great job of proving that racism exist within the black elites circles, so that whites need not to worry about being politically correct.
I spend my time researching, that's why I know this sh1t.
Finding out and exposing the machinations of Albinos and their "Near" Mulattoes is NOT Racism, it is merely "Truth".
Posts: 22721 | Registered: Oct 2005
| IP: Logged |
quote:Originally posted by Caveman: Boy, you must have plenty of time on your hands!
Great job of proving that racism exist within the black elites circles, so that whites need not to worry about being politically correct.
RELATED:
Rev. Norvel Goff prays at the empty seat of the Rev. Clementa Pinckney at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church four days after a mass shooting that claimed the lives of Pinckney and eight others in Charleston, S.C. Some family members of those killed in the church shooting have said they forgive the man who's been charged. But others in the African-American community say offering forgiveness so quickly may not be the best idea.
Forgiveness of Charleston church shooter prompts discussion Associated Press By JESSE J. HOLLAND
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Under an outdoor tent a few blocks from Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Sharon Simmons paused while cleaning up from the previous night's revival to ponder the idea of forgiving the white man accused of killing nine of the historic black church's members, including the pastor.
A churchgoer herself, Simmons admits feeling torn between her anger and her Christian inclination to forgive. She also adds that she's a firm believer in capital punishment. "Too many lives are gone," the 57-year-old former New Yorker says.
Many African-Americans are struggling with those same feelings as the nation begins to move past the tragedy in Charleston. Although many say their religious faith requires them to forgive, there is a question of whether a public narrative of quick forgiveness actually provides cover for whites to avoid facing racism.
"It's almost like white America is telling us, 'Help us to forget the past by telling us that you forgive us,'" said Raymond Winbush, director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University in Baltimore.
Just one day after the June 17 massacre at Emanuel, Chris Singleton, the college student son of victim Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, said he forgave his mother's killer. The following day, family members of the dead joined the first court hearing for the suspected killer, 21-year-old Dylann Roof, and told him via video conference that they, too, forgave him — even as some acknowledged also feeling angry and hurt.
"Everyone's plea for your soul is proof that they lived in love, and their legacies will live in love. So hate won't win," said Alana Simmons, granddaughter of Emanuel victim the Rev. Daniel Simmons.
Similarly, forgiveness was extended in recent days after several Southern black churches burned down in a spate of fires, some of which were deemed suspicious.
"We've already forgiven them, and we want to move forward," the Rev. Mannix Kinsey, pastor of Briar Creek Road Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, told WBTV. "And we are hoping this is an opportunity for Christ to show himself in their hearts."
Those who extend forgiveness say they are not naive in doing so. Some say they are still a working at it, and they make clear that forgiveness is not the only emotion they have about the racial events that are unfolding.
"It makes us angry. It makes some of us want to explode," the Rev. Jonathan V. Newton said Wednesday during midweek services at Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, which has increased security at its historic sanctuary since the Charleston killings. But forgiveness is "not about that person, it's about you," Newton said. "In order for you to be free, you've got to let it out."
One factor at play is that forgiveness is a strong Christian tradition, and African-Americans identify as Christians more than any other group in the United States. According to the Pew Research Center, nearly 80 percent of blacks identified as Christian in 2014, compared with 77 percent of Hispanics and 70 percent of non-Hispanic whites. A smaller number of blacks, 18 percent, identified as agnostic, atheist or "nothing in particular," compared with 24 percent of whites and 20 percent of Hispanics.
Beyond religious purposes, experts say, immediate forgiveness probably helped to forestall reactionary violence in Charleston, denying Roof the race war that police said he told them he wanted to start. Charleston remained peaceful after the killings at Emanuel, a stark contrast to the violence that broke out in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore after the deaths of black men in encounters with police.
The Rev. Norvel Goff, interim pastor succeeding the late Rev. Clementa Pinckney at Emanuel, said self-preservation is also a motive — forgiving does more for the person who is hurting than the one who caused the pain.
"We're not in control of those who may commit evil acts, but we are in control of how we respond to it," Goff said.
Such was the sentiment of Martin Luther King Jr.'s father and sister as they forgave King's killer James Earl Ray, and Marcus Chenault, who shot and killed King's mother, Alberta Williams King, in 1974 as she played the organ during Sunday services at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church.
"Hate won't bring my mother or brother back. It would only destroy me," Christine King Farris told JET magazine in 1984.
Myrlie Evers-Williams, former NAACP national chairwoman, said she was moved to tears to see the Emanuel families speak immediately of forgiveness. She said forgiveness was a lengthy process for her. Harboring thoughts of vengeance for the 1963 murder of her husband, NAACP leader Medgar Evers, motivated her activism, but for her own peace she eventually let it go.
"The hatred has ended up as a motivational tool, and the forgiveness has been a salvation for me," said Evers-Williams.
Historically, Winbush said, African-Americans have been expected to forgive for slavery, discrimination, Jim Crow segregation, attacks by the Ku Klux Klan and police violence. By meeting that expectation, he said, "in one sense we aid and abet those who would commit those crimes."
Ansley M. LaMar, a professor at New Jersey City University, pointed out that the civil rights movement was born out of anger, but the nonviolence and forgiveness it espoused is what people remember about it most.
"There was an understanding that there was a community of black people who were not going to take it if it kept on happening," LaMar said. "So being forgiving doesn't mean being a wimp. It doesn't mean, white folks, you can walk all over me. It means I forgive you, but I'm not going to let this happen again."
Posts: 22721 | Registered: Oct 2005
| IP: Logged |
posted
"So being forgiving doesn't mean being a wimp. It doesn't mean, white folks, you can walk all over me. It means I forgive you, but I'm not going to let this happen again."
Silly Negroes......so confused......
-------------------- Keldal Posts: 2818 | From: new york | Registered: Apr 2014
| IP: Logged |
posted
As you can see Caveman, you still have the Negroes confused, but I and others, know that you do not want forgiveness, what you want is the "PEACE" to enjoy your ill-gotten gains.
That is why we say "No Justice No Peace".
And for myself, I add, "No Truth No Peace".Posts: 22721 | Registered: Oct 2005
| IP: Logged |
quote:Originally posted by the lioness,: Originally posted by Mike111: So does that mean that the "TRUE" American Indians had "DARK BROWN SKIN"?
As we can see from these portraits of "REAL" Indians...
YES!
But what has Mongolians got to do with this statement of mine???
You are such a degenerate, can't you think of something intelligent to say?
I'll explain it to your dumb ass again. According to Dr. Winters dark skinned Mongoloid "Indians" are recent arrivals and are not the REAL Negroid Indians
quote:Originally posted by Clyde Winters:
peep the hair Clyde says these are the true black Botocudos,REAL Indians, notice the African style lip plate
Caucasoids and Mongoloids are "derived from" Negroids, so what, we are dealing with true blacks here, not passers
Posts: 42919 | From: , | Registered: Jan 2010
| IP: Logged |
Yes they are true BLACKS and as soon as Clyde gets here he will school you on it
"Black" as defined by Dr. Winters, not whiteboy-ologists
^^^ Khosians and Himba are not Mongoloids, don't have Mongoloid DNA, don't have bone straight hair and their eye fold is of a different type, stop the foolishness
quote:Originally posted by Mike111: The Yellow Race: as epitomized by the Chinese.
Originally the Chinese had a Yellow "Hue" to their skin, because they were the Mulattoes of the original Mongol type Africans who settled East Asia: these people were later known as the Xia, Shang, and Jomon.
Over time, the Black Africans admixed with Albinos to became the modern Chinese.
.
A word of clarification here:
For expediency sake, I grouped "ALL" Black East Asians as Mongol phenotype, like those Himba and San shown.
But here is the thing:
Not all, (as a matter of fact, the minority) of Himba have Mongol features.
Check any source that describe how these figures were painted. They were not painted black. That is a 100% LIE Mike is trying to put over. The terracotta army are in various conditions. Most like the ones in the above picture have nearly no paint on them, only a few flakes. -look it up on google the words "terracotta army" "color""grey""paint"
The term Terracotta is also used to refer to items made out of this material and to its natural, brownish orange color, which varies considerably. The iron content gives the fired body a yellow, orange, red, "terracotta", pink, grey or brown color. The term Terracotta is often used to describe unpainted clay sculpture. The Terracotta army is called the Terracotta army because on the vast majority of figures little to no paint survived that once covered the figures.
Examples of color variation in UNPAINTED Terracotta >>>
The about 8,000 soldier Terracotta army is made of clay that is naturally swirled with both gray and orangish-red color . .
The Qin terracotta warriors we see today are steel grey without fresh colors. But archaeological investigations have found that this was not the original color of the mighty force. In the April of 1999, there were astonishingly unearthed six kneeling armored warriors whose bodies retained large sections of colorful painting, which demonstrated that the Qin's artisans had elaborately painted the terracotta warriors and horses after firing, to make this majestic army more lifelike.
Qin’s army of clay soldiers and horses was not a somber procession but a supernatural display swathed in a riot of bold colors: red and green, purple and yellow. Sadly, most of the colors did not survive the crucible of time—or the exposure to air that comes with discovery and excavation. In earlier digs, archaeologists often watched helplessly as the warriors’ colors disintegrated in the dry Xian air. One study showed that once exposed, the lacquer underneath the paint begins to curl after 15 seconds and flake off in just four minutes—vibrant pieces of history lost in the time it takes to boil an egg.
Now a combination of serendipity and new preservation techniques is revealing the terra-cotta army’s true colors. A three-year excavation in Xian’s most famous site, known as Pit 1, has yielded more than a hundred soldiers, some still adorned with painted features, including black hair, pink faces, and black or brown eyes. The best-preserved specimens were found at the bottom of the pit, where a layer of mud created by flooding acted as a sort of 2,000-year-long spa treatment.
AS IS PROVEN BY THE BROKEN OFF NECK THE COLOR OF THE CLAY IS GRAY THE PAINT IS THE LIGHT ORANGY PINKISH COLOR
AGAIN THE LIGHT ORANGY PINKISH^^^ COLOR ON THE HAND IS PAINT APPLIED TO THE GRAY CLAY
AND AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE SHOULDER RED PAINT IS FALLING OFF THE GRAY CLAY
_________________________________________
NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE BELOW FIGURES, (TWO PHOTOS) PART OF THE 8000 SOLDIERS, THAT HAVE LITTLE TO NO PAINT LEFT ON THEM, YET BECAUSE THE VARYING IRON CONTENT IN THE TERRACOTTA CLAY USED, SOME FIGURES ARE MORE REDDISH WHILE OTHERS ARE MORE GRAYISH
Mike you lying swine, why do you keep trying to trick people? -Guess what, I have seen some of the terrocitta army in person and I know first hand you are lying
Posts: 42919 | From: , | Registered: Jan 2010
| IP: Logged |
quote:Originally posted by Mike111: The Yellow Race: as epitomized by the Chinese.
Originally the Chinese had a Yellow "Hue" to their skin, because they were the Mulattoes of the original Mongol type Africans who settled East Asia: these people were later known as the Xia, Shang, and Jomon.
Over time, the Black Africans admixed with Albinos to became the modern Chinese.
.
A word of clarification here:
For expediency sake, I grouped "ALL" Black East Asians as Mongol phenotype, like those Himba and San shown.
But here is the thing:
Not all, (as a matter of fact, the minority) of Himba have Mongol features.
.
Young Himba man - Angola
.
The "SAME" holds true for the San.
Fool these Africans are not Mongolid type Africans they are Negroids with an eye fold
By your reasoning then the vast majority of Africans are "Caucasian type Africans" because their eye shape is more similar to Caucasian eye types Plus East Asian bone straight hair is straighter than both the average European and average African and it has a thicker strand which can me measured
Enough with the Mickey Mouse eyeballing and man on the street theorizing This is 2015, we have genetics
quote:Originally posted by Mike111:
Black Africans admixed with Albinos to became the modern Chinese.
.
^^^ THIS IS STUPID AND WRONG,
MIKE . STOP THE BULLSHYT
Posts: 42919 | From: , | Registered: Jan 2010
| IP: Logged |
Yes the woman on the left looks like a white person and we know that the Inidans have mixed with Europeans and Africans. But the the guy on the right does not look white he clearly looks Asian. Come on Mike, you can't be serious !!!!
Who but you woud say he looks "just like ordinary White people" ?? Even a child wouldn't
So if you could please correct this on your website because it's coming off silly
Also "red" and "yellow" are not races, stop spreading this anitquated nonsense Posts: 42919 | From: , | Registered: Jan 2010
| IP: Logged |
quote:Originally posted by Mike111: And of course, with Albinism comes the "Self Defense" mechanism of "Racism".
The logic to that is that though they don't want to "Be" Black,
they also don't want to have to "Compete" with Blacks.
They understand that to be a losing proposition.
So like the Europeans, they are building barriers of Racism
to isolate themselves from Blacks, and the accompanying competition from Blacks.
The problem with that: is that both China and Europe are desperate for
African "Raw Materials": without which, they cannot hope to sustain themselves.
As of now, Africans are still too backward to understand their true position,
but if and when, they come to understand the outside world:
then we may see a completely new world-wide dynamic. One the
likes of which, we haven't seen since the Albinos usurped Blacks in Europe.
And though China is becoming quite racist,
it is still much more subtlety done than it is with Europeans.
Mike, wah appen to ya?
China is a Country Where Our Christian Family is building Up the Kingdom that Lifes in the Midst:
quote: Luke 17:21 Nor Will People Say, "Here It Is" or "There It Is" because the Kingdom of God is In Your Midst
Can't say look at Chinese wearing that face kini , They are Racists.
People is People,
Possibly some people(brainwashed) wear that cause they dislike there Color?
The Thing though is that, The Pics I saw that you posted even though the pic was Blurry the People in the Background NONE had a whats that thing, face kini ?
Remeber that gehazis,pharasees,principalites, can seduce people so quick to hate from Love just as quick as you Coughing!!!
Remember in the Holy Bible the Book of The Teaching of the Apostles:
quote: Acts 14:8-12,14,18-19
8In Lystra there sat a man, who was Lame. He had Been that way from Birth. and Had never Walked
9 He Listened to Paul as he was speaking. Paul looked Directly at Him.Saw That he had Faith to be healed.
10 And Called Out "stand up on Your Feet" At that the Man Jumped up and began to walk
11 When the crowd Saw,What Paul had Done, They Shouted in the Lyconian language "The Gods Have come down in human Form
12 Barnabas they Called Zeus and Paul they called Hermes because he is the Chief Speaker
14 But When the Apostles, Paul and Barnabas heard this, they tore there clothes and rushed out into the crowd
18 Even with these Words, They had Difficult time keeping the Crowd from sacrificing to them.
19 Then Some Jews Came from antioch and iconium and won the crowd over. They Stoned Paul and dragged him outside the City, thinking he was dead
20 But After the Disiciples had gathered around Him, he got up and went back into the City. The Next day He and Barnabas left for Derbe
So you see that People can be Seduced almost as fast as lightning flashing.
So Naw Claim that the Chinese are Racist, Say Some of them have been brainwashed!!
Remember that Africans are in China, Chinese are In Africa.
Kinda odd that the computer(net) It's hard to find positivity About Africans in China. As If they are desperate to divide the people. What a Shock .
Notice If you write Africans in China, one of the links that comes up is the gayrabic aljazeera america!!!
Just Remember Mike that, People Will Listen! Speak Truth and They Will Hear, No need to tough Love for Everyone. Sometimes you just point out the minor agents and then Point to the Positive of the Awakened.
That's Why Our Family, True Christians are fighting for the Chinese People
Christian Brothers and Sisters are Saving People, theBreaking atheism from China and rememebr that china is a country where freedom of speech, basically even thinking is something that the state tries to hinder.
Look north korea where the government post just propoganda about how great north korea is etc comunist leaders just post videos of 4-8 hours of them just talking, they don't debate ideas, They just show pictures of military and the leaders of the country, some places possibly 24hours thats all they show.
Thats called indoctrination.
So You must not get upset with People when they Leave there country and are against-social interaction. You must excuse The Chinese in China if some are igbnorant about Africans. thats Why the Christians are Doing there Part in the Country.
Cause You Must Know that Black, White, Red, Brown and Yellow are Represented in the Body of Christ:
quote: Luke 17:20-21 20 Now Having been questioned by the Pharasees as to when the Kingdom of God was coming, He Answered them and Jesus said "The Kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed:
Nor Will people say, "Here It Is" or "There It Is", because the Kingdom of God is Within You
Posts: 9651 | From: Reace and Love City. | Registered: Oct 2005
| IP: Logged |
Racism against black people may be the strongest form of racism in China.
Many families in China would be horrified if their son or daughter married a black person. Some would even disown them outright.
It can be difficult getting a job teaching English in China if you are black. This is because of the perception of many people in China that only white people are ‘true Americans’ or ‘true English’ people.
Sadly, it’s often easier to get a job teaching English in China as a white person from a country where English is not a native language than as a black person from a country where English is the only native language.
Many people in China think most black people play basketball and are violent. If you are black, many people from China will perceive you as African. If you are not, you will have to repeatedly explain that you are from another country.
The most common slur against black people in Chinese seems worse than that used for white people – “black ghost” vs. “old ghost”. Many people in China also assume that if you are black, you have very little money.
Racism against blacks in China is also strongly linked to the class divisions and racism that exists within Chinese society. This is not a justification for racism against blacks in China, but for thousands of years Chinese people of lighter skin looked down upon those of darker skin, who often could not afford to be anything other than a peasant farmer. Racism Against Other Races in China
Though racism in China is strongest against black people, there is a general relationship that determines how foreigners are seen by many people in China: The darker your skin, the more racism you will experience.
No matter where you grew up, if you are not white it will be tougher to get a job teaching English in China.
Posts: 22721 | Registered: Oct 2005
| IP: Logged |
posted
There are more black people statues (black Europeans) in Graeco Roman arts as we can see in the Books the Image of The Black in Western Art and Frank Snowden Black in Antiquity then in Chinese arts.A Chinese doctor DNA prove that the original Chinese were black people, there should be more black people statues in Chinese art. The Chineses are very good in hiding and destroying the Black Chinese statues.
Posts: 5374 | From: sepedat/sirius | Registered: Jul 2012
| IP: Logged |
quote:Originally posted by mena7: There are more black people statues (black Europeans) in Graeco Roman arts as we can see in the Books the Image of The Black in Western Art and Frank Snowden Black in Antiquity then in Chinese arts.A Chinese doctor DNA prove that the original Chinese were black people, there should be more black people statues in Chinese art. The Chineses are very good in hiding and destroying the Black Chinese statues.
You are absolutely correct. The Chinese , like Europeans make numerous pieces of art to make it appear that they are the history makers.
Back in the day when I was regularly reading Chinese archaeological publications they usually mention artifacts discovered in excavations but they regularly never published them.
let's not forget Americans popularized the myth that all Native Americans looked like the Hopi and Lenape/Apache phenotype, until researchers started publishing pictures of the Carolina Indians and other Indians in the Northeast that were phenotypically negro.
There are probably plenty of Black Chinese artifacts that the Communist Government is hiding.One day we may see these works.
Posts: 13012 | From: Chicago | Registered: Jan 2006
| IP: Logged |
posted
Many people assume that the Han are a monolithic tribe. This is false. The Chinese make it clear that there are 65 branches of the Chinese race. This results from the fact that China has been conquered over the years by numerous nomadic groups including the Hua, the first Mongoloid group to conquer the majority of Black Nations in China. The Chinese nomads mated with the Black Chinese.
The Qin were basically a mixed mongoloid-negro group. Over time the Chinese lost the features associated with a mixed race as numerous nomadic mongogoid groups from the Steppes regularly conquered and ruled China, including Tungusic and Mongolian populations thus we see Jurchen, Merkits, Naimans, Mongols, Cantonese, Hakka, Minnan and Teochew plus many more tribes making up the modern Chinese population.
Posts: 13012 | From: Chicago | Registered: Jan 2006
| IP: Logged |
quote:Originally posted by Clyde Winters: let's not forget Americans popularized the myth that all Native Americans looked like the Hopi and Lenape/Apache phenotype, until researchers started publishing pictures of the Carolina Indians and other Indians in the Northeast that were phenotypically negro.
Columbia University
The Written Record of the Voyage of 1524 of Giovanni da Verrazano as recorded in a letter to Francis I, King of France, July 8th, 1524
[Adapted from a translation by Susan Tarrow of the Cellere Codex, in Lawrence C. Wroth, ed., The Voyages of Giovanni da Verrazzano, 1524-1528 (Yale, 1970), pp. 133-143]
... Since the storm that we encountered in the northern regions, Most Serene King, I have not written to tell Your Majesty of what happened to the four ships which you sent over the Ocean to explore new lands, as I thought that you had already been informed of everything--how we were forced by the fury of the winds to return in distress to Brittany with only the Normandy and the Dauphine, and that after undergoing repairs there, began our voyage with these two ships, equipped for war, following the coasts of Spain, Your Most Serene Majesty will have heard; and then according to our new plan, we continued the original voyage with only the Dauphine; now on our return from this voyage I will tell Your Majesty of what we found.
We set sail with the Dauphine from the deserted rock near the Island of Madeira, which belongs to the Most Serene King of Portugal on the 17th day of January last; we had fifty men, and were provided with food for eight months, with arms and other articles of war, and naval munitions; we sailed westward on the gentle breath of a light easterly wind. In 25 days we covered eight hundred leagues. On the 24th day of February we went through a storm as violent as ever sailing man encountered. We were delivered from it with the divine help and goodness of the ship, whose glorious name and happy destiny enabled her to endure the violent waves of the sea. We continued on our westerly course keeping rather to the north. In another 25 days we sailed more than four hundred leagues where there appeared a new land which had never been seen before by any man, either Ancient or modern.
At first it appeared to be rather low-lying; having approached within a quarter of a league, we realized that it was inhabited, for huge fires had been built on the seashore. We saw that the land stretched southward, and coasted along it in search of some port where we might anchor the ship and investigate the nature of the land, but in fifty leagues we found no harbor or place where we could stop with the ship.
Seeing that the land continued to the south we decided to turn and skirt it toward the north, where we found the land we had sighted earlier. So we anchored off the coast and sent the small boat in to land. We had seen many people coming to the seashore, but they fled when they saw us approaching; several times they stopped and turned around to look at us in great wonderment. We reassured them with various signs, and some of them came up, showing great delight at seeing us and marveling at our clothes, appearance, and our whiteness; they showed us by various signs where we could most easily secure the boat, and offered us some of their food. We were on land, and I shall now tell Your Majesty briefly what we were able to learn of their life and customs.
They go completely naked except that around their loins they wear skins of small animals like martens, with a narrow belt of grass around the body, to which they tie various tails of other animals which hang down to the knees; the rest of the body is bare, and so is the head. Some of them wear garlands of birds’ feathers. They are dark in color (some use the word Black: it's up to the translator), not unlike the Ethiopians, with thick black hair, not very long, tied back behind the head like a small tail. As for the physique of these men, they are well proportioned, of medium height, a little taller than we are. They have broad chests, strong arms, and the legs and other parts of the body are well composed. There is nothing else, except that they tend to be rather broad in the face: but not all, for we saw many with angular faces. They have big black eyes, and an attentive and open look. They are not very strong, but they have a sharp cunning, and are agile and swift runners. From what we could tell from observation, in the last two respects they resemble the Orientals, particularly those from the farthest Sinarian regions.
We could not learn the details of the life and customs of these people because of the short time we spent on land, due to the fact that there were few men, and the ship was anchored on the high seas. Not far from these people, we found others on the shore whose way of life we think is similar.
UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!
![[Embarrassed]](redface.gif)
, They are Racists. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
.
Seated Buddha and Disciples (Query)
Printer-friendly view of this topic