WHO ARE THE MELUNGEONS
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•How Did These People Get Here?
Evidence is also strong (see the work of English historian David Beers Quinn) that in 1586 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE DEPOSITED SEVERAL HUNDRED TURKISH AND MOORISH SAILORS, liberated from the Spanish in present-day Central America, on the coast of North Carolina at Roanoke Island.
Evidence is also strong (see the work of English historian David Beers Quinn) that in 1586 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE DEPOSITED SEVERAL HUNDRED TURKISH AND MOORISH SAILORS, liberated from the Spanish in present-day Central America, on the coast of North Carolina at Roanoke Island.
•No trace was found of these people when later English vessels dropped anchor for re-resupplying. It is possible, if not likely, that many of them survived and were absorbed into the surrounding Native American tribes.
•This is particularly intriguing when one considers that most sixteenth-century Turkish sailors were themselves of central Asian heritage, thus making them literal cousins to the Native Americans they would have encountered.