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22/4/2005
2nd Week
SAILING WITH CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

First of all, I found many holes about the account of Zheng He and the reasons I want to point out about why I don't want to travel with Zheng He are as follows. Zheng He's ships of 300 and 28000 men are far too large a number to be traveling and his ships are as big as 400 feet which is over 100 meter in length. I wonder how can a fleet of ships as large as that had traveled by sea to other countries of Africa and not make history in other parts of the country even if its history was wiped out in China.
We must view the text with the skeptical eye. The author, Nicholas D. Kristof, is married to a Chinese woman and maybe he was trying to tweak the reader for amusement. He may have much love of Chinese culture since he is married to one. The author got to the island of Pate and in that island where once Chinese people once have landed, every old men and women of Pate did not know the story of Chinese sailors......

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