RE: VMs: New guy on the block

["dangibson" <canbooks@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Nick. I've spent the day downloading pages. My feelings are
growing stronger by the hour, and I'm quite excited. However, I'm off on
an exploratory trip tomorrow, and won't be back until Monday of next
week. I'm sure I recognize at least five of the characters in the
language used, and another six or seven are quite close to others. That
leaves 11 scribbles that I can't correlate at all. Some words, however
are starting to come out. My hunch is that this is not cipher. It is an
ancient language used by ancient merchants and traders, but it has been
badly distorted by scribes who were just copying without understanding.
They westernized the whole book, where it is oriental in style and
layout. My research is going to take quite a bit of time, though, as I
want to identify some of the plants and animals in manuscript. Once I
finish downloading the pages next week, I will make copies on CD and
fire them off to some scholars in various parts of the world for their
help in identifying some of the things in the manuscript. I'm excited. I
could be right. And I could be very very wrong, like lots of people
before me.

Dan



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