While Karl gives an accurate recall of the early European definition of California, then they might've just labeled the map 'here be dragons', as was the usual case in recording ignorance. Here's another thing. Speaking of the assertion "peopled by black women", Ivan van Sertima - Professor [Emeritus] of History at Princeton and a Caribbean man; just one of the brilliant sons of Guyana - in his "They Came Before Colombus: The African Presence in Ancient America" asserts and provides considerable evidence of an African presence long before the European one of the 15th Century. My own teacher and mentor, Professor Rex Nettleford [if heaven exist may he get there before the devil knows he's dead] from the high perch at the UN HQ in NY characterised Don Cristobal Colon, Admiral of the Ocean Sea, thus 'that Genoan wanderer'...... Context is important to understanding, y'see. -Carlton ============================== Carlton A Samuels Mobile: 876-818-1799 *Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround* ============================= On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Karl Auerbach <karl@cavebear.com> wrote:
Know, that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called
California very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise;