1875. Leland's translation of Professor Neumann's narrative from the Chinese text of the Yearbook and that of Hoei-shin, the Buddhist monk, on the possibility of the Buddhists discovering America. Also included is a letter from Colonel Barclay Kennon, who passed several years in the North Pacific, and is of the opinion that the voyage supposed to have been taken by the Buddhist monks is easily practicable, and might be effected even in an open boat. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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confused translation of old book with confused commentaries,
This review is from: FUSANG OR, THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA: By Chinese Buddhist Priests in the Fifth Century (Paperback)
The book has a confused style or the chinese in 500 A.C. wrote that way. Its translators from chinese to german and from german to english did little to clear the confused theme treated in the book. They just translated the confusion into english. I have readed it twice and I am not sure what it says. It seems that the author thought that he had arrived to Mexico because among other things he found aloe vera plants (Fusang) and the distances and beckoning seemed the correct direction. A commentator then seemed to remember Peru as one of the main cultures in America and said it could be Peru. But the final analysis said that it could have been Hawaii or Japan, but not the american continent. I have read other accounts by the french scholar and they seemed ok to me, as Yoritomo Tashi writings. I think that the traslators did little to enlight the reader or perhaps Mr Leland, the english author did all in his hand to preserve the original but failed to enlighten the readers abour the subject or to clear all the confusion caused by the chinese author and the translators to german and english.
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"To retain laws and customs according to the traditionary manner, and to extend these laws and customs to other lands," was the precept of the founders of the Celestial Empire, as well as of other civilised nations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Professor Neumann, Old World, North Pacific, Colonel Kennon, New World, Aleutian Islands, New Mexico, American Continent, Behring's Straits, Central America, New York, North America, The Ruler of Tang, Painted People, The Ambassador, Empereurs du Japon, New Spain, San Francisco, Chinese Empire, Middle Kingdom, Sandwich Islanders, Asiatic Continent, Attou Island, Chinese Year-Books, Lake Superior New!
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"To retain laws and customs according to the traditionary manner, and to extend these laws and customs to other lands," was the precept of the founders of the Celestial Empire, as well as of other civilised nations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Professor Neumann, Old World, North Pacific, Colonel Kennon, New World, Aleutian Islands, New Mexico, American Continent, Behring's Straits, Central America, New York, North America, The Ruler of Tang, Painted People, The Ambassador, Empereurs du Japon, New Spain, San Francisco, Chinese Empire, Middle Kingdom, Sandwich Islanders, Asiatic Continent, Attou Island, Chinese Year-Books, Lake Superior New!
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- The Conquest of Peru by William H. Prescott on page 50, and page 53
- Prehistoric Races of the United States by John Wells Foster on page 115
- A History of New York (Masterworks of Literature) by Washington Irving on page 127
- Hw North Amer Indians (How and Why Wonder Books Series) by Donald D. Wolf on page 10
- Conquest of Mexico by William Hickling Prescott on page 34
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