Bhairitu,
I've heard another version of this story. There are some researchers who
believe that the ancient Polynesians may have reached Peru and California by
boat. They were excellent sailors and used the night skies for direction and
dead reckoning.
So, the current accepted theory
A Chinese discovered America? In an opium dream maybe.
Dr John Dee, astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I, made a formal claim to North
America on the back of a map drawn in 1577, noting that c.1494 (three years
before Italian John Cabot) Mr Robert Thorn and Mr Eliot of Bristow, discovered
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