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Last week, after an 85-day voyage, Dr. Davis' 45-ft. ketch Miru (which he named after the legendary mother of the Polynesian race) was lying in harbor at Callao, Peru. To illustrate his theory, he had sailed her 7,700 miles from New Zealand across the storm-lashed South Pacific. TIME, SEPTEMBER...
Comb Land. The rest of the voyage to Callao was easy. As Dr. Davis neared the Peruvian coast, he recalled an old tale of the islands. A Polynesian expedition under Chief Maui Marumamao, says the legend, sailed east from Easter Island and came to "a land with ridges like a comb." The Peruvian coast is like that, with steep, barren ridges running down to the sea. There the Polynesians built a temple, but they did not stay long because they did not find what they needed: fertile land near the sea. This description also matches Peru, for most...
Peruvian sailors watching the crazy craft under construction at Callao thought the six Scandinavians must be mad. The crude raft was made of balsa logs, the longest 45 ft. long, hauled from the Ecuadorian jungles and lashed together with ropes. A crude steering oar swung astern; a big, archaic square sail drooped drunkenly from the mast, and the cabin aft was a bamboo hut thatched with banana leaves...
Cornejo and de las Casas were tried with 48 other civilians and 190 members of the navy for complicity in a naval revolt in Callao in October 1948. Cornejo got five years, de las Casas six. Of the remaining defendants, ten civilians were acquitted; the others got terms of from one year to life. Only one, a naval petty officer, was condemned to death...
...disappearing. More & more, Andean man has hired out to haciendas or mines, or moved to coastal cities. When he descends to the Pacific, it becomes his turn to undergo the rigors of adaptation, and the experience is often too much for him. Partly for this reason, Lima and Callao have one of the world's highest T.B. rates. Dr. Monge thinks Andean man's future is in the mountains. There, with food, soap and some books, says Monge, he might one day recapture the creative vigor of the Incas...