.. they have white heads,
and therefore the country men call them _penguins_ (which
seemeth to be a Welsh nanme). And _they have also in use divers
other Welsh words, a matter worthy the noting_."--The relation
of David Ingram, 1568. in _The principall navigations_, etc.
1589. Fol.
[This narrative was compiled from answers to certain
_queries_--perhaps twenty years after the events related.]
"Afterwards [anno 1669] they [The Doeg Indians] carried us to
their town, and entertained us civilly for four months; and I
did converse with them of many things in the British tongue, and
_did preach to them three times a week in the British tongue_,"
etc. Rev. Morgan Jones, 1686.--_British Remains_, 1777. 8 deg..
[The editor omits to state how he procured the manuscript. The
paper whence the above is extracted is either decisive of the
question at issue, or a forgery.]
The _student_ may infer, even from these imperfect hints, that I
consider the subject which he proposes to himself as one which deserves
a strict investigation--provided the collections hereafter described
have ceased to be in existence.
"With respect to this extraordinary occurence in the history of
Wales, I have collected a multitude of evidences, in conjunction
with Edward Williams, the bard, to prove that Madog must have
reached the American continent; for the descendants of him and
his followers exist there as a nation to this day; and the
present position of which is on the southern branches of the
Missouri river, under the appellations of Padoucas, White
Indians, Civilized Indians, and Welsh Indians.
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