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dated August 12, 1952: Discovery of America

A leading South African anthropologist said the Arabs, not Christopher Columbus, discovered America. The Arabs scored a beat of nearly 500 years on Columbus, according to Dr. Jeffreys, senior lecturer of social anthropology at Witwatersrand University. Dr. Jeffreys based his claim on a discovery, 18 months ago, of Negro Hamitic)) skulls, in the Rio Grande River.

The Professor said: "Puzzling things seemingly previously inexplicable, suddenly made sense and fitted like a jigsaw puzzle." Dr. Jeffreys was of the opinion that by 1,000 A. D. Arabs already commanded the Mediterranean, were established in the West Coast of Africa and had settled in America. Columbus found small colonies of Negroes on Darien Isthmus who, according to Dr. Jeffreys, were descendants of Arab slaves.

The discovery of Hamitic skulls in caves in the Bahama Islands and African root crops in the Caribbean provided credence to his theory, Dr. Jeffreys said.

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