Hi Dave,

Menzies book is a publishers compendium of many researchers, which explains its scattershot
chopped approach. It is full of inherent contradictions. The glaring underlying failure is that all of the New World traits that Menzies cites as evidence of Zheng He's presence in North and South America,... are traits that were in the New World long before 1421. Two jarring errors come to mind: his contention that the Chinese introduced jade to Mexico, and his breathless discovery that native tribes were Mongolian. These two failings point to an abysmal ignorance of ancient America.