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Often there has to be research done on the cartographer because some of them folks were just as fraudulent as Christopher Columbus. They would draw elaborate pictures based on word-of-mouth having never left their own continent/country.Not to be the Debbie Downer, but I was trying to prove melanated aboriginals based on a map that labeled "negra" and "Ethiopian-look-a-like" people, but found that the cartographer never left their country to begin to be considered a first-hand account of anything in the "Americas" or at least that was how the story was told of his life..
Often there has to be research done on the cartographer because some of them folks were just as fraudulent as Christopher Columbus. They would draw elaborate pictures based on word-of-mouth having never left their own continent/country.
Not to be the Debbie Downer, but I was trying to prove melanated aboriginals based on a map that labeled "negra" and "Ethiopian-look-a-like" people, but found that the cartographer never left their country to begin to be considered a first-hand account of anything in the "Americas" or at least that was how the story was told of his life..
