SC - Chinese Explorers

[James Gilly / Alasdair mac Iain]

At 10:39 2-2-99 -0800, Huen wrote:
>   On a more interesting note, a recent TDC or TLC program I was
>watching talked about the fact that Wooly Mammoths were still alive on
>earth at the time of the ancient Egyptian pharoahs! Which means that
>some adventurous Siberian hunter may have been snacking on mammoth
>steaks at the time the pyramids were being erected. Food for thought...?

Can't remember where I saw it, but one of the early (16th century) English
explorers of the Carolinas (as I recall, he was escaping from the Spanish
in St Augustine) reported seeing elephants.  Left-over American mastodons,
perhaps, or imperial mammoths...?


Alasdair mac Iain



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Dun an Leomhain Bhig
Canton of Dragon's Aerie [southeastern CT]
Barony Beyond the Mountain  [northern & southeastern CT]
East Kingdom
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