Rich Wrote:
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> I was looking over some of Gavin Menzies
> "evidence". One of them is a quote of George
> Washington seeing an old Chinese Junk. I'd
> imagine this would be around 1776. This is 350
> years after Zheng He, though. The topic is
> interesting of Chinese exploration of the new
> world. GM clearly has problems with weighing
> evidence though... where everything he sees looks
> Chinese.

Bernard had previously discussed this question earlier in the thread; as well as posting this extract from a web archive, which dealt with these points in some detail.

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