Most likely, then, the first Malagasy were accidental castaways, news of whose adventurenever made it back home. But there is still a puzzle. Most ships crews are male. Though thenumber of men in the original party will remain obscure until an analysis like Dr Cox s isdone on the Y-chromosome of Malagasy men , the presence of women on board a trading vessel would have been unusual.Unless, of course, the women themselves were the objects being traded. Possibly, then,Madagascar was colonised by an errant slave ship. Which would make its history evenstranger than anyone had previously thought.
那么,首批马达加斯加人也很可能是因船只失事而意外漂流到该岛的,而这批人后来也没办法回到家乡。可是这种说法仍然让人困惑,因为大多数的船员由男性担任,虽然在对马达加斯加人男性的Y染色体进行数据分析之前,例如Cox 博士的小组所作的工作,该岛首批居民的男性人数尚未明晰,那一时期在一艘贸易货船上出现女性是很罕见的事情。当然,例外情况是,女性本身就是贸易品。那马达加斯加岛就可能是一艘迷途的奴隶商船的殖民地了。这样一来,这段历史就会比先前任何人所想的更加奇特。
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