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>Can you imagine what a vision that must have been to those
> people - to see some near naked white woman near alabaster skin and long
> shoulder length  flaming red hair rounding the bend in a canoe and
> landing at the village. She was very popular for a while over the
> incident
--snip--

I think that would've made an impression on just about anybody- including
the 'popular' part...  : )
Something about that scene reminds me of the movie 'The Gods Must Be Crazy'.

Cya,
Robert