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From: "R. Leutner" <>
Subject: Re: The Principal work of the Vikings
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 21:45:27 -0600
In-Reply-To: <v03007806aeb50699804c@[208.130.228.29]>


> Disease had decimated Southern New England tribes prior to Plymouth. From
> whence came those bugs?
There was a fair amount of documented & assumed contact between NEurope
and the NE N American coast in the decades prior to 1620, both explorers
and more numerously and slightly more regularly, fishermen. This should
be pretty well covered in any good general history of the time & place.
These guys, any of them, were the likely carriers of whatever the diseases
were that cleared the ground for Puriotan settlement (it is not clear
what the plagues were); a good source also for blue-eye, blond-hair
genes, of course, but nobody yet has posted any good early sources about
Indians with that surfer look.

Bob Leutner Iowa City IA

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