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Captain's Log; Christopher Columbus: Mermaids and UFO's
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There be mermaids and Flying Saucers out here!!
1493, January 4: During his first journey to the Americas, Christopher Columbus made an entry in his journal that he himself, along with his crew, had witnessed a trio of mermaids breaking high from the sea off the coast of Haiti, going so far as to say:
"They were not as comely as they are painted, but to some extent they have a human appearance about the face...."
Columbus also swore that he had seen the same types of beings on a previous voyage off the coast of Guinea, West Africa. It is doubtful that he saw stitched-together fish-and-monkey corpses thrashing about in the sea.
Other sightings:
1608, June 15: While sailing north of Russia near the Novaya Zemlya islands, famed navigator Henry Hudson inscribed the following sighting in his logbook, as reported by amazed members of his crew on watch:
"From the navel upward, her back and breasts were like a woman's... her body as big as one of us; her skin very white; and long hair hanging down behind, of color black; in her going down they saw her tail, which was like the tail of a porpoise, and speckled like a mackerel."
1614: The 17-century explorer of America, John Smith, claimed to have seen a mermaid in an up-close encounter, on a trip through the West Indies in 1614. He initially saw her swimming and thought her a lovely maiden, but when he prepared to talk to her from the ship, he was shocked to discover that, from the waist down, "the woman gave way to the fish."
[link to web.archive.org]
Christopher Columbus also reported in his logs UFO's
1492, October 11, 10:00 PM: " Christopher Columbus and Pedro Gutierrez while on the deck of the Santa Maira, observed, "a light glimmering at a great distance." It vanished and reappeared several times during the night, moving up and down, "in sudden and passing gleams." It was sighted 4 hours before land was sighted, and taken by Columbus as a sign they would soon come to land. (From "The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus)
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Let the truth be told... though the heavens fall!
If your sensibilities are that delicate, then I suggest you never leave home...
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