On Pate Island, off the coast of northern Kenya, there are light-skinned Africans with Chinese features, fragments of ancient Chinese porcelain, and even a place named “New Shanga”. All lend weight to a local story that shipwrecked sailors from the fleet of Zheng He, the 15th-century Chinese explorer, settled on the island many years before Columbus set foot in the US.
在肯亞北部海岸的帕泰島(Pate Island)上,有一些膚色較淺、有著中國人相貌特徵的非洲人,那裏還有古代中國瓷器的碎片,甚至還有一個名爲「新尚加」(New Shanga)的地方。這些似乎都印證了當地的一個故事,15世紀的中國探險家鄭和的船隊中遭遇事故的水手們在這個島上定居下來,比哥倫布(Columbus)登上美國土地要早很多年。
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