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On Sankofa Road and its tributaries, I am continuing to encounter more information on Christopher Columbus. Some of this information has been added to the earlier article, “Honoring Truths, By Dishonoring Columbus Day Lies In Rabbit Hole USA,” UC#2789.Columbus Day was originally observed every October 12, but was changed to the second Monday in October beginning in 1971 CE. https://www.history.com/topics/exploration/columbus-day
“On August 3, 1492 CE, he [Christopher Columbus] sailed with three small ships or caravels and a crew of ninety men from the port of Palos, Spain. For more than two months the little vessels pressed westward, nearly all of the sailors scared almost out of their senses, for they believed that by and by they would sail off the edge of the world or become the prey of horrible monsters that inhabited the unknown ocean toward which they were making their way. The crew were on the verge of mutiny more than once, and it required great tact, promises and threats on the part of Columbus to hold them to their work. He succeeded, and on the night of the 11th of October**, a flickering light was discerned through the darkness, which he knew must come from land. At the earliest dawn, all were thrilled by the sight of a small island. It was one of the group known as the Bahamas, generally supposed to be Watling**, though there is no certainty. Not doubting that it belonged to the East Indies, Columbus called the natives Indians, by which name they have been known ever since.”
(1906 CE New Werner Twentieth Century Edition Of The Encyclopedia Britannica. The English Ninth Edition In Twenty-Five Volumes With New American Supplement Complete In Thirty Volumes, Volume XXIII). The first twenty-four volumes of the New Werner Edition contain thirty-one new and later articles by American authors, replacing articles on similar subjects written by different authors for the original ninth English (Foreign) Edition
** Watling was first called San Salvador by Columbus on October 12, 1492 CE, then Watling by other Europeans, then back to San Salvador. The native name of the island was Guanahani. Columbus also gave the name of San Salvador to the first harbour he reached in Cuba (now called Puerto de Ñipe) in the belief that he had reached the coast of Japan; the natives telling him that in ten days he would reach the mainland [likely South Central America or South America], which he thought was China, San Salvador (now El Salvador] was also the name of one of the Central American Republics and is the name of its capital city. (Names & Their Histories by Isaac Taylor)
What we can be certain of is that Columbus did not call the natives “Indians” because it was a new name he just invented. Columbus was lost and clueless and never set out to find the Americas. Instead he set out to go to India. He thought he ended up in the East Indies (Philippines). However, he went west from Spain instead of south down past Africa and then east and then north up to India. This placed him in what is now called the Bahamas. By using “Indian,” Columbus was using a name already known to Europeans to describe the people based on their physical features. They were called Indians because they looked like people from India who looked like people from Africa who were dark or black and not red. These are people who still retained enough of their features and coloration from Africa to be called Indians. As shown elsewhere, Africa is the first India (Sindha), the first Ing (Ank, Nga) people.Herodotus used the words India and Indian at least 1,000 years before Columbus was born. Herodotus wrote that both the Western Ethiopians, who lived in Africa, and the Eastern Ethiopians who dwelled in India, were black in complexion, but that the Africans had curly hair, while the Indians were straight-haired. It is a certainty Herodotus was not the first to use the words India and Indian.
By The Way: Christoper Columbus' name in Italian is Cristoforo Colombo. Columbo is appropriate since it matches the disheveled scatter-brained detective in the American TV show, Columbo. The difference is Columbo just seemed lost; however Columbus was so lost he didn't know what direction he was traveling. Likely they zigzagged all the way there.
It is said the TV show Columbo is based on a character in Dostoevsky's Crime & Punishment.I say, for real life Christoper Columbus, his fate also has plenty shades of, the Charles Dickens statement, “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
Christopher Columbus was able to turn the worst of times in being lost, into the best of times of being deposited in the Bahamas and finding treasures there to loot and take back to Spain, and then lying and saying he had found West India (West Indies) and then be credited with finding the Americas and America and be adopted by the British Englanders who came later to North Armorica and needed a colorless European to cut and paste into their fabricated history, similar to how semite mulatto Jews have patchwork quilted a history out of stolen pieces, turning magi trails into rabbi tales.
As likely corroborated elsewhere, in finding his way back to Spain in 1492 CE, Columbus used the forced or willing naive gullible assistance of the “Indians” he encountered on Watling Island, otherwise he certainly would not have been able to find his way back.
Columbus found America alright, in the sense that bumping into the coffee table while sleep walking in the middle of the night means you found the post office.Notes: https://www.google.com/search?q=where+is+east+indies&oq=where+is+east+indies&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i512l2j0i22i30l7.3542j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Notes: Bahamas, or Lucayas, are a group of islands extending south-east from Florida for 600 miles. One of them, probably Watling Island, was the first landfall of Columbus, who called the group Las Princesas, probably because they were the 'first' islands he discovered [for white Europeans to attack]. The name Lucayas is a corruption of the Spanish name Los Cayos, 'the keys,' cays' or 'reefs', which was given by early Spanish mariners. The meaning of the name Bahama is doubtful, but is most probably derived from a small group, still called Bimani, opposite Cape Florida, of which the Spaniards in Haiti heard tidings, and from the resemblance of the name identified it with a place in Asia called Palombe by Mandeville, where he asserted there was a miraculous fountain of youth, of which he had himself drunk. Palombe was an imaginary name, Mandeville having cribbed his account of the place and its fountain from a spurious letter purporting to have been written by Préster John. It was in search of Bimani that Juan Ponce de Leon discovered the Great Bahama [for white Europeans to attack] in 1513 CE, and rediscovered the 1498-1502 CE discovery of Florida by other Europeans. De Leon renamed the land, Florida [even though before 1498 CE, people were already living there]. In Herrera's map of 1601 CE Bahama is an island placed next to Bimani. (Names & Their Histories)