Re: Ill Bethisad (was Re: Rant: Defending Indonesian)

On Monday 04 November 2002 12:59 pm, you wrote:
> Wesley Parish wrote:
> >This is the transcript of someone else's attempt to do an Ill Bethisad for
> New
> >Zealand, based on the premise that the early Portuguese explorers
> > convinced their kings and queens to colonize New Zealand.  It was printed
> > as an
> article
> >in the Christchurch Press, from which I nabbed it.
> >
> >Maybe I should take you up on this offer?  Reserve a spot in Ill Bethisad
> for
> >me, if so!  Portugal in Australasia.  Portugal as the colonizer of the
> island
> >of New Guinea.  Portugal as the colonizer of the South Pacific islands!
>
> (snip interesting speculation)
>
> Could be a very mixed blessing.... Yes, the Port. did some nice
> architecture, they were far less racist than the Germanics and less fanatic
> than the Spaniards, so I suppose that counts in their favor.  But as
> colonial masters, they seem to have been, shall we say, inept, or perhaps
> overly benign to put it more nicely. :-)
>
> Their Asian colonies in particular turned out to be total back-waters. They
> got to Indonesia a century before the Dutch, but never managed to establish
> a presence, except in poor little Timor.   Perhaps in Ill Bethisad they'll
> have better luck.
>
> (Part of the problem was (IIRC) that during much of the 16th C. (or was it
> the 17th?) Portugal was (unwillingly) "united" with the Spanish crown--
> that's probably something that needs to be fixed)
If so, how do I join?  What's the procedure?  Anything as "interesting" as the
Masonic Lodge's procedures?  Or more so?

Let me know.

Wesley Parish

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