Rowan Gavin Paton Menzies (14 August 1937 – 12 April 2020)[1][2][3] was a British submarine lieutenant-commander who authored books claiming that the Chinese sailed to America before Columbus. Historians have rejected Menzies’ theories and assertions[4][5][6][7][8]: 367–372 and have categorised his work as pseudohistory.[9][10][11]
The Haida and other native groups of coastal BC have no record of Zheng He’s voyage.
And because his ships weren’t capable of handling the open ocean, the only way he’d be able to do such a trip is by hugging the coast, so they’d have absolutely seen them.
I’d never heard about this “Zheng He in America” thing before, so I just did a little reading about it. One thing I read said he supposedly sailed around Africa and to the east coast of America, which is even more implausible.
Rowan Gavin Paton Menzies (14 August 1937 – 12 April 2020)[1][2][3] was a British submarine lieutenant-commander who authored books claiming that the Chinese sailed to America before Columbus. Historians have rejected Menzies’ theories and assertions[4][5][6][7][8]: 367–372 and have categorised his work as pseudohistory.[9][10][11]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Menzies
The Haida and other native groups of coastal BC have no record of Zheng He’s voyage.
And because his ships weren’t capable of handling the open ocean, the only way he’d be able to do such a trip is by hugging the coast, so they’d have absolutely seen them.
I’d never heard about this “Zheng He in America” thing before, so I just did a little reading about it. One thing I read said he supposedly sailed around Africa and to the east coast of America, which is even more implausible.