Show A STORY A welsh settlement in III this country in the year tear 11 IKO 70 cabets singular discovery Disco lAr Art liura thurs magazine in a lecture delivered livered de by mr jaines albany new york he be related the curious tia ti tradition a which existed among the delph in 1170 two brothers david and medoc quarrel quarrelled led forthe for the throne the younger medoc becoming dis eusted busted gave up tip the struggle and fitting fitting out a ship sailed west the next gearhe year he returned said he had disco discovered verea a fruitful country and called upon his frienda friends to follow him he ife had no difficulty in filling ten ships with men women and children cli ildren they sailed away and according to welsh story were never heard of again this would not be worth much as history were it not that it seems confirmed by evidence found on this side of the ocean in ili years yeam alter titter prince medoc medoe left wales a welsh minister named morgan was wits sent from front new york to north carolina to preach to some sonic welsh people who settled there he ire Yerna remained ined with them thein P pome nie time one day lay lie wan ivan dered too faron far on the tile outskirts odthe of the settlement and was captured by indian they took him many miles in inland I 1 and and prepared to burn bur n him at the stake the faggots maggots were piled around him and his doom dooni fremed sealed suddenly he be exclaimed in welsh have I 1 come so far to die the like a dog at last to his surprise surp tise the indian sprang forward loosed his ban bands d and embraced him crying in in welsh no not if you speak that language I 1 henceforth he lie was the honored guest of the evening morgans surprise deepened when the principal members of this indian tribe gathered around him flim and began to converse with him in welsh ho ile preached prea clied to them and they understood him but what amazed him most was to discover that they the had a manuscript manu t copy of the bibee bible in the welsh language morgan relates this story in in a letter cent sent to friends in wales the letter is well authenticated but it ii 11 the only evidence that we have in the matter so far as we are aware nothing more was wits ever heard beard of thia this indian tribe who spoke welsh and find lad I 1 ad a it welsh bible but about fifteen or twenty years later an exploring party returning from beyond the mississippi river relate among other won S ders rs that they have found a tribe of indians who speak the welsh language langu gu c they too have a welsh bib bible afe none of their number can read riad it and they keep it as 03 a mysterious treasure treasurer carefully rolled up ill in the skins of ofa nimah and fifteen or awen twenty ty years later still another e exploring party brings us back strange news from the of the north they have found there a singular people with whitened hair an and I 1 blue bue I 1 e eyes es 1 1 these people speak the welsh language 11 linsto lastly catlin speaks of a tribe op of white indians dwelling along the upper courses of the tile amis aji they are diff different erent from the tribes around them thein some have fair hair and blue eyes and their language is strangely mixed with a great number of welsh words 1 now 1 says mr wood here we have five inde independent account accounts which seem to tell one story they ther are so fio strange that historians bis st don t know what to do with them but if indians on the american continent can call s a k the welsh language they must have been taught atin time if there are manuscript c copied vies of the welsh bible here the they y mu must st hava como come hero here somehow and you can call put the tile facts together as you please another curious fact f act wai stated by the lecturer ai in i s speaking ea ki I 1 0 ortho f the discoveries of jolin joh n T cabot t nf he 0 said d in ill substance hero here is a strange tiling john cabot reached the shores shorts of new Pound Found land in ill 1497 only f live lye beare yea ra after columbus set sail he found that the indians were in itt powes possession slon of a great en t number of french words and co could uld understand him film when he ile sp poke oke to them in 10 that language langua ge the ahey duew the french term lor codfish coda ish and anti fishing he hensoon soon lea learned ra edth eliat atthe the breton f fishermen from the rockbound coast of northern franco F rance were in the habit babit of coming c oming to these bleak american shores in their fishing smacks and catching the cod with which these waters abounded remember thia this was only five years after the timo time 0 of f columbus if these fearless earless fishermen in their frail vessels had bad been traveling backward rd and forward across the ocean long enough to teach the indiana indians a good part of their the irlan language e who knows whether or not the they saw the continent of america even before columbus did V |