Re: [CH] Chiilis in Africa 2
Tantrika (hummer13@earthlink.net)
Sat, 19 Jun 1999 13:26:58 -0700
At 08:01 PM 6/19/99 +0000, you wrote:
>
>What has to be figured in is what is the chance of someone
>without this knowledge and navigation aid achieving this feat
>of navigating to a small island 2000 miles away in a canoe ;-)
>Not knowing the island existed in the first place. If we accept
>that all this knowledge is essential to the success of the trip
>where did the polynesians get it and why is there no evidence of
>it now if they had it. If the trip is one way how did the
>knowledge get back?
A very good question. How does one know that land is near when one is in
an outrigger in the middle of the pacific ocean with nothing in sight?
Well the Easter Islanders somehow made it, the only the Gods know how....
Of course then they decimated their own land :(