Re: Sailing the Seas

[Niven Sinclair <niven@niven.co.uk>]

At 08:53 14/05/01 -0400, you wrote:
>I have just returned from a 7 day Caribbean cruise, and although the ship I
>was on was far removed from that of Prince Henry, Donald the Sailor, and
>other Norse and Scottish seamen ancestors, there is a certain feeling of
>solitude watching the waves roll by in the moonlight. A feeling of discovery
>when sighting land after many hours or days at sea. A feeling of an explorer
>while walking on a trackless beach at sunrise. And a feeling of being wronged
>when you see the monuments to Columbus at Haiti and Jamaica. You can rest
>assured our dining party was educated on the voyage of our Prince Henry
>Sinclair.
>
>Donald Sinclair (Indianapolis)


Not only about his voyage but, I hope, about the impeccable way he treated the
indigenous people with whom he came into contact - a far cry from Christopher
Columbus who set the pattern of barbaric behaviour which was followed by the
atrocities of the Conqistadores.

Niven Sinclair


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