The Sailing Saint by Ned Bustard

Veritas Phonics Museum, Volume 18

There is no doubt that the Irish were frequent seafarers of the North Atlantic sea currents 900 years before the voyage of Columbus. Shawnee Indian traditions tell of an Irish-speaking tribe existing in Florida while in 1519 Cortez came across the legend of Quetzalcoatl - "The Precious" - a white-bearded missionary who had come from holy isle to the northwest.