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Page 7 Portland O bserver O C T O B E R 12, 1989 PERSPECTIVES by Mckinley Burt W ell, last week 1 got your attention by w riting about 'B la ck Pirates'. There was a method in my madness as I wished to draw attention to the fact that contrary to most contemporary white historians, there is a long and well- documented tradition o f African sea- farers-5000 year tradition. This had been a touchy subject, since roaming sailors and soldiers are known to leave quite visible evidence o f their pres ence-vis a vis their genes. We may begin our older citations with 'Queen Hatshepsut' (1390-1468 B.C.), the great Egyptian ruler o f Ethiopian descent. The w orld ’s first 'U rban P lanner', she b uilt paved roads 3200 years before the United States (The 1794 Lancaster Turnpike which linked Philadelphia w ith Lancaster, Pennsyl vania). This is the same Black queen whose seaborne expeditions to the 'Land o f P unt' are described in the Bible (today’s countries o f Oman and Yeman.) From this Red Sea Coast o f Arabia, many African Pharaohs brought back many shiploads o f gum and resin-laden trees-the Bibical “ frankincense and m y rrh ” . Queen Hatshepsut was succeeded by her brother, Thotmese III (Thutmose) whose seaborne e' ped.tions o f discov ery and conquest ranged from the fast ness o f Asia M inor and the marshes o f the Upper Euphrates to the swamps o f Babylon and the islands o f the M edi terranean. African voyage like these led the ancients to give to today’ s Per sian G u lf its original name. The 'E th io pian Sea'. Thotmese, a great builder o f temples, also constructed two huge 'obelisks', stone towers sim ilar to the Washington Monument. One has been brought to Central Park, New York C ity, and the British have set up the other on the Thames embankment in London England. But even in earlier times the Bible tells us o f the 'Reed boats o f the E th io p i ans' (Isaiah), boats exactly the same as, found today o r both coasts o f Africa. They are also found throughout the Pa cific Rim and Polynesia, including Easter Island, and on Lake Titicaca in South America’s Andes Mountains. It was this knowledge o f the proliferation o f the fabled African craft that prompted the noted explorer, T h o r Heyerdahl, to test the theory o f prehistorical trav els from A frica (o f course, American Blacks already knew that the majority o f the peoples o f these lands look ex actly like most o f our ghetto popula tion. Heyerdahl, in his famous book, 'K on - T ik i' (1950), also describers a 4000 mile voyage in a balsa wood and reed raft from South America to the South Pacific islands o f Polynesia. Equally significant is his 'reed raft* expedition from the West Coast o f A frica to the Americas-these vessels having been constructed by the Africans themselves and modeled to their ancient tradition. But, for the most concrete and compel ling evidence we are indebted to the ancient A frica n ’s demonstrated a b ili ties in mathematics, astronomy and Map-making-and their history-preserv ing habit o f w riting in stone or sturdy papyrus. We have the follow ing from p.136 o f David Grecnhoods’s book. Mapping: “ A cone is another round shape which can be unrolled to lie flat. It can fit a globe as nicely as a hat can fit a head. And the ‘ sweatband’ w ill take an accu rate print o f everything it touches on that dome. S lit the cone from rim to point, ro ll it out, and you’ll have a kind o f fan. The ribs o f the fan w ill be the meridians.” “ This is a very old trick. About 1800 years ago, over in Egypt, a map-maker worked this trick and made a splendid map o f the then known world. Il ex tended from the longitude o f Ireland to that o f ‘silkland’ or China. On the right-hand edge he put figures showing the number o f hours in the longest day o f the year at each latitude” . Other, much older maps, indicate that the African’s had accurately pinpointed specific sites in Russia, and even India. This is revealed by 4000 year old pa pyri and stone steles in European museums Not loo much o f a “ tr ic k ” if you arc the one w ho taught the Greeks mathematics. 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