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"
True
stories
?
"
"
Up
to
a
point
,
yes
.
I
’
ll
let
you
read
one
or
two
,
if
you
like
.
It
’
s
all
there
for
anyone
who
has
eyes
to
see
it
.
Personally
—
and
this
is
speaking
as
a
subscriber
to
Scientific
American
,
here
—
I
feel
very
sorry
for
the
professionals
whenever
they
find
another
confusing
skull
,
something
that
belonged
to
the
wrong
sort
of
people
,
or
whenever
they
find
statues
or
artifacts
that
confuse
them
—
for
they
’
ll
talk
about
the
odd
,
but
they
won
’
t
talk
about
the
impossible
,
which
is
where
I
feel
sorry
for
them
,
for
as
soon
as
something
becomes
impossible
it
slipslides
out
of
belief
entirely
,
whether
it
’
s
true
or
not
.
I
mean
,
here
’
s
a
skull
that
shows
the
Ainu
,
the
Japanese
aboriginal
race
,
were
in
America
nine
thousand
years
ago
.
Here
’
s
another
that
shows
there
were
Polynesians
in
California
nearly
two
thousand
years
later
.
And
all
the
scientists
mutter
and
puzzle
over
who
’
s
descended
from
whom
,
missing
the
point
entirely
.
Heaven
knows
what
’
ll
happen
if
they
ever
actually
find
the
Hopi
emergence
tunnels
.
That
’
ll
shake
a
few
things
up
,
you
just
wait
.
"
Did
the
Irish
come
to
America
in
the
dark
ages
,
you
ask
me
?
Of
course
they
did
,
and
the
Welsh
,
and
the
Vikings
,
while
the
Africans
from
the
west
coast
—
what
in
later
days
they
called
the
slave
coast
or
the
ivory
coast
—
they
were
trading
with
South
America
,
and
the
Chinese
visited
Oregon
a
couple
of
times
:
they
called
it
Fu
Sang
.
The
Basque
established
their
secret
sacred
fishing
grounds
off
the
coast
of
Newfoundland
twelve
hundred
years
back
.
Now
,
I
suppose
you
’
re
going
to
say
,
but
,
Mister
Ibis
,
these
people
were
primitives
,
they
didn
’
t
have
radio
controls
and
vitamin
pills
and
jet
airplanes
.
"
Shadow
hadn
’
t
said
anything
,
and
hadn
’
t
planned
to
say
anything
,
but
he
felt
it
was
required
of
him
,
so
he
said
,
"
Well
,
weren
’
t
they
?
"
The
last
dead
leaves
of
the
autumn
crackled
underfoot
,
winter
-
crisp
.
"
The
misconception
is
that
men
didn
’
t
travel
long
distances
in
boats
before
the
days
of
Columbus
.
Yet
New
Zealand
and
Tahiti
and
countless
Pacific
islands
were
settled
by
people
in
boats
whose
navigation
skills
would
have
put
Columbus
to
shame
;
and
the
wealth
of
Africa
was
from
trading
,
although
that
was
mostly
to
the
East
,
to
India
and
China
.
My
people
,
the
Nile
folk
,
we
discovered
early
on
that
a
reed
boat
will
take
you
around
the
world
,
if
you
have
the
patience
and
enough
jars
of
sweet
water
.
You
see
,
the
biggest
problem
with
coming
to
America
in
the
old
days
was
that
there
wasn
’
t
a
lot
here
that
anyone
wanted
to
trade
,
and
it
was
much
too
far
away
.
"
They
had
reached
a
large
house
,
built
in
the
style
people
called
Queen
Anne
.
Shadow
wondered
who
Queen
Anne
was
,
and
why
she
had
been
so
fond
of
Addams
Family
–
style
houses
.
It
was
the
only
building
on
the
block
that
wasn
’
t
locked
up
with
boarded
-
over
windows
.
They
went
through
the
gate
and
walked
around
the
back
of
the
building
.
Through
large
double
doors
,
which
Mr
.
Ibis
unlocked
with
a
key
from
his
keychain
,
and
they
were
in
a
large
,
unheated
room
,
occupied
by
two
people
:
a
very
tall
,
dark
-
skinned
man
,
holding
a
large
metal
scalpel
,
and
a
dead
girl
in
her
late
teens
,
lying
on
a
long
,
porcelain
object
that
resembled
both
a
table
and
a
sink
.
There
were
several
photographs
of
the
dead
girl
pinned
up
on
a
cork
-
board
on
the
wall
above
the
body
.
She
was
smiling
in
one
,
a
high
school
head
shot
.
In
another
she
was
standing
in
a
line
with
three
other
girls
;
they
were
wearing
what
might
have
been
prom
dresses
,
and
her
black
hair
was
tied
above
her
head
in
an
intricate
knot
-
work
.
Cold
on
the
porcelain
,
her
hair
was
down
,
loose
around
her
shoulders
,
and
matted
with
dried
blood
.
