1421: The Year China Discovered the World by Gavin Menzies

Author:Gavin Menzies
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: World, History
ISBN: 9781448154838
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2002-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

The locations of standing stones in Massachusetts.

After establishing the settlements, the junks would have set sail. How desolate the crew and concubines left ashore must have felt, watching the great red sails unfurl and fill with wind, carrying the junks away. Those lining the beach would have strained their eyes until the ships were no larger than specks on the horizon, and as they turned away at last, their hearts must have been full of foreboding. No doubt promises were made that the next great treasure fleet would return for them, bringing fresh supplies and more people and carrying those who so wished back to their homeland. As the years passed, amid the daily struggle to survive – building shelters, catching fish, tilling the soil and foraging inland for food – they must have paused often to cast their eyes out to sea, raking the horizon for the first smudge of red that might signal the arrival of a rescue fleet. But as the years went by, hope must have faded, as must talk of their homeland, constant in the conversation of the old but dimming to a half-remembered tale and then forgotten altogether by succeeding generations. Not one single Chinese ship ever returned to collect them.

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