David Ingram is HOW OLD??

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foggyidea

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I knew there was a lot of wisdom in Dave, but never would I have guessed that he was party animal back in the 1500's!!!

"It was David Ingram, a crewman aboard the ship owned by English slaver, Sir John Hawkins, who deserves credit for mythologizing Norumbega. He had been a crewman aboard a slave ship which had been wrecked along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in 1562. Ingram claims to have walked northward to Nova Scotia, where he was picked up by a French ship and given passage back to Europe. Once home, he earned supper and cups of beer by regaling “his drinking companions with tales of Norumbega, up the Penobscot River, where people wore jewelry inset with thumb-sized pearls and lived in round houses held up by pillars of crystal, gold, and silver. There were, he said, red sheep and other fabulous beasts, among them one with floppy ears like a bloodhound (a moose?).”[1] His accounts eventually appeared in print, inspiring expeditions to the New World in search of the Eldorado-like City of Gold in eastern North America. "

Posted : February 1, 2011 12:17 pm

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Wasn't he one of those put ashore by Hawkins after trying to beat his way out of the Caribbean after his fight with the Spanish. The timing, distance and story placed some doubt on his trip even though some of his observations were accurate. I wonder if he found his way by water up the Mississippi, into the Great Lakes then East to the coast. That would be the only route and mode of travel that would allow for him to travel that distance in the time that he did, around the coast by foot was out. The French at that time had been wiped out in their settlement in Florida by the Spanish a year earlier, so they could not have helped him. Read about that voyage a year ago including the hardships of those put ashore as imposed by the Spanish and the Inquisition. Seems that the Portugal had the Slave trade fairly well locked up because of their hold over the African Coast and their biggest customers were the Spanish. Men like Hawkins had to sneak in to get a cargo to sell to the Spanish.
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Posted : February 1, 2011 1:57 pm