Annex 28b – Evidence of Chinese fleets visit to the Great Lakes, Canada
Maps and star charts
- The 1408 Master Chart of the World published 84 years before Columbus set sail has recently been found by the 1421 team. It shows what is claimed in the book ‘1421’ – Newfoundland can be clearly identified from Belle Isle in the North to Cape Race in the South. It is the only part of America on the chart.
- The Vinland Map (c.1430) is clearly a derivative of the 1408 Master Chart. The Vinland Map shows the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which the 1408 chart does not. GM concludes from this that Zhou Wen discovered the St. Lawrence River between 1408 and c.1430.
- GM believes the fleet left Boston in the summer of 1422 sailing NE with the Gulf Stream. They watered at Yarmouth Nova Scotia where they carved a stone (Stephen White info) and buried treasure on Oak Island (William Nauss, Warren Lissel, Paul McNamee and Thomas Gale info). Off Prince Edward Island one junk was wrecked or lost an anchor. The remainder, including horse ships sailed up the St Lawrence, building navigational Cairns as they went along (Archie Eschborn info).
- In Lake Huron the Fleet separated – part entered Lake Superior another Lake Michigan.
- Lake Superior Survivors – They lost horses in Thunder Bay. The remainder (in small boats?) sailed/ floated past Duluth and St. Paul. They built a stone fortress near the Illinois River between St Paul and Rochester. They settled in that area being known today as the Ho Chunk Nation, “The Nation of the Sea” (Fr Nicollet – Allen Altman info).
- Lake Michigan Survivors Met up with the Rock Lake people (Archie Eschborn), they built a stone dragon and carved two more dragons and built observation platforms (to determine longitude) near Lake Geneva, Lake Delavan and Rock Lake. Some continued downstream. Approaching St Louis they painted the Piasa Dragon (Allen Altman) – Father Marquette’s description of this painted beast is virtually an exact match for the dragon heraldry of the Yellow Emperor, Huang Di. Please refer to the link at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_dragon
- Was the Piasa an Imperial dragon, proudly proclaiming China’s claim on the Mississippi Valley? For more information on the Piasa please visit the following links: http://www.indians.org/welker/piasa.htm It happens that the Piasa cannot be directly linked to any know Indian motif, it was painted green (a colour utterly unknown in true pictographs from the American mid-west, and the immense scale and complexity of the Piasa is unique. Mark Nickless, who originally drew our attention to the Piasa Bird Monster has written an article on the phenomenon. To read his article please click here.
- Feb. 2005 update – Researchers have had an opportunity to examine a rare original 1854 Henry Lewis lithograph of the Piasa, published in Dusseldorf. It has some intriguing details that had not been seen in the small copy previously available to them:
1.It is apparent that a bluff face of at least 5000sq. ft. in area had been quarried and worked smooth before the Piasa was painted. Also, there are distinct quarrying marks to the left of the Piasa, in an unusual pattern.
2. The Indians in the foreground are shooting at the Piasa. They feared it and sought to obliterate it. It could not have been theirs!
3. The face on the right-hand creature is crudely added, and could not have been part of the original work – Mark Nickless - Survivors of the Lake Superior and Lake Michiganexpeditions live on today in the Cree Ojibwa people who have recently acquired Chinese genes (Professor Novick and Colleagues). Our own DNA research has confirmed this – Asian DNA of 38% and 40% respectively in the first two samples taken of Cree Ojibwa people. (DNAPrint Genomics and Jerry Warsing research)Animals indigenous to one continent, found on another
- Horses – Dr. James P. Scherz interviewed a Menominee Indian named Pamita (‘Ancient American’, Archaeology of the Americas Before Columbus). On asking ‘Did you get the little horses from the Vikings?’ he responded ‘No, from the Chinese…People from across the seas came to visit and we went there to visit’ (Joanna Bergeron)Artefacts, gems, votive offerings, coins and funerary urns
- St. Lawrence Island – an ivory carved alligator. It was recovered from an old house site. Reports tell how the native men of St. Lawrence Island, King Island and Little Diomede Island have tattoos of small dots. These dots are found to be on the spots of the Chinese acupuncture points – Joseph Davis
Accounts of modern historians
- 1582 Sir Humphrey Gilbert Map by John Dee. Contemporary letter re Map of the Philadelphia Library’s notes that Dee shows the St. Lawrence “reaching through the Great Lakes, or a great lake – the Lake of Ontario beyond the La Chine (Chinese) Rapids” – Robin LindStone buildings, artefacts, canals and aqueducts
- There are original source materials of the 18th century French discovery of carved stone pillars in the woods of Eastern Canada. These pillars were covered in Tartarian script. French Jesuits visited these pillars and eventually carried one off to France for study. It was considered very unusual that Asian artworks were left behind in the forests of Canada – more research needed (Roddy Heading)
- Near the St. Lawrence River there is a pile of cut stones which are ancient and no ones knows who did it – more research needed – (Will Miskolzie)
- A Canadian reader came across a report of a set of very well carved stone stairs in the Victoria area that went deep into the rock. The stairs were recalled as being very artfully done. Untold attempts by the persons to return to the site failed but apparently the natives of the area were aware of the steps. The article suggested that the stairs weren’t in keeping with the style of the Spaniards who had ventured into that area. Were the Chinese interested in underground storage? (Ken & Grace Ryan)
- Salem New Hampshire has stone platforms by river. More research needed. (Henry Quinn-Dollar Signs)
- John Lewis has found the research of George H. Dougherty of Otterville, Illinois, who investigated the possibility that the original builders of the mounds in the Illinois and Mississippi valleys were a race of people apart from the Indians. He amassed a collection of Jade artifacts, two of which were found along the Piasa Creek in Jersey county.
Evidence of Pre-Columbian Mining
- Michigan’s Upper Peninsula – Pre-Columbian copper excavations. This specific copper has been found all the way to Mexico and in places in between. These old copper diggings are in Michigan’s upper peninsula near Lake Superior, where the Ojibwa still live today.
- Evidence of copper mining long ago in Northern Michigan on the Keewanau peninsula at Calumet. Smelting done by plunging ore into cold water. The tools and process was suddenly abandoned. No one knows why. Bruce Catton, in his book Michigan, writes about this. (Kathleen Stocking)
Distinctive artwork
- In Lake Superior Provincial Park in Canada hear Agawa, there are pictographs on the rock wall above Lake Superior that show horses and the pictographs date from before horses were thought to be in that area. (Kathleen Stocking)
In Lake Superior Provincial Park in Canada hear Agawa, there are pictographs on the rock wall above Lake Superior that show horses and the pictographs date from before horses were thought to be in that area. (Kathleen Stocking)
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