Pardon my stupidity, but was Eric The Red any relation to the Sinclairs?
Or the trait of the red hair?
Dorothy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Niven Sinclair" <niven@niven.co.uk>
To: <sinclair@mids.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 3:51 AM
Subject: Genetic traits
> If I may add a footnote to the recent exchanges between Johnnye and
myself
> about genetic
> memory and her 'unusual' red hair and green eyes, the Narrgansett Indians
> when asked: "Who
> built Newport Tower?" answered: "It was built by fire-haired* men with
> green eyes who came
> up the river in a boat like a gull with a broken wing".
>
> * Note: fire-haired men. Not fair haired
>
> 'The gull with the broken wing' was undoubtedly a reference to the
> ships' sail flapping in
> the breeze because, by the time the ship was in the estuary, it would,
> in all probability,
> have been propelled by men at the oars.
>
> What a wonderful description the Narragansett people gave to the arrival
of
> the builders of
> Newport Tower and how much we can (and should) learn about the early
> history of America
> from that simple sentence.
>
> Niven Sinclair
>
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