Darwin boy's find could rewrite history [Australia-Gun]

Australian Geographic ^ | 10 Jan 2012 | AAP with AG STAFF

[married21]

I used to work with a guy who said that he had traced his geneology back to one of the natives who killed Magellan.

[Stonewall Jackson]

A few years ago, a team restoring the Mill Springs battlefield here in Kentucky found a flintlock stuck up under a rock ledge. The battle was fought of a cold, snowy, foggy morning and most of the Confederate units had old flintlocks that kept misfiring. The gun’s action had been partially disassembled, so they speculated that a Confederate had been trying to clear a misfire, got fed up, and got rid of the infernal troublemaker.

[eartrumpet]

I guess it would prove John Glenn went to the moon.

I have my grandfather’s cheap old double barrel, made before 1900. He never came to Idaho in his life, and yet, his gun is right here.

[dog breath]

Many of the Northern troops had better guns by the end of the war then their Southern opponents. Sherman had repeating rifles in his march through Georgia and the Carolinas which I gather was a huge help with what pockets of resistance he met. Inferior weapons are a deadly curse for the poor guy trying to fight with them. That clumsy Portuguese gun would of been like having some magic power to kill from a distance to most natives they encountered.

[blam]

"I used to work with a guy who said that he had traced his geneology back to one of the natives who killed Magellan. "

I traced my family DNA and my grandmother (Mrs Smith) is related to this guy.

[yarddog]

Just about all the first families of Virginia were descended from Pocahontas. (for instance Robert E. Lee) Her line almost died out too. She had only one child then that one also had only one and the next had only one but they all survived.

Finally one had around five and the line was fairly safe from then on.

[gleeaikin]

Probably was a combination of new moon low tide and off shore winds.

[John O]

I’m soooo confused.. Darwin? Portugese swivel gun? How could this have evolved????

[Sawdring]

I don’t think that is the only thing he fantasizes about. It reminds me of the kid in the movie Animal House who thanks god for the girl that pops through his window.

[Ax]

Sounds like there was some creative geneaology underway there.

[married21]

Sure. The guy’s family was from the pertinent part of the Philippines, but I don’t know how/whether he drilled down and got more specific than that. Church baptismal records wouldn’t go that far back.

[Eye of Unk]

Wow I’m surprised to even see any news at all about Oz, seems to me the MSM in America just does not know what to do about Australia, the Land Down Under, the country of low unemployment and a higher rated country to live in.

And contrary to what most people think you can own a gun in Oz, and if for some reason your choice of gun requires too much paperwork then just make your own.

[Ax]

I used to work with a guy who was an amateur anthropologist. He told me that in his studies, he learned that before the Magellan party arrived, life in the islands was so idyllic that they didn’t even have names for days of the week, or even weeks for that matter. It probably took the Spanish a couple of generations before they started keeping records and the people there could’ve told the priests took it as gospel and so wrote it. We’ll never know.