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...Peruvian balsa, is carrying six Scandinavian adventurer-anthropologists on a voyage of historical induction (TIME, April 21). After four days of radio silence, the raft was heard from again last week. Present position: about 1,300 miles east of the Marquesas. For a fortnight after the Kon-Tiki left Callao, Peru, the Peru current carried it northwest nearly to the equator. Then the south equatorial current and the southeast trade wind took over and pushed the raft due west across the Pacific. Drifting 40 to 50 miles a day, it was now well ahead of schedule and had covered more...
Anthropologists will put themselves to a lot of trouble to prove a pet theory. Last week, five Norwegians and a Swede were making plans to sail westward from Callao, Peru, on a seagoing raft. They were taking many of the same chances as their theoretical primitives: the raft was modeled after the balsas of the ancient Peruvians. They hoped to prove that the South Pacific islands had been visited-perhaps partly peopled-by civilized Indians from South America...
...Tiki. After the war, Heyerdahl gathered around him a group of his countrymen, most of them veterans of Norway's underground, and led them to Peru. There they were joined by a Swedish anthropologist. Their daring plan: to sail to Tahiti. 5,000 miles from Callao. If they make Tahiti safely, the world's anthropologists will have to admit that ancient Peruvians could have done...
...told in the story that gives The Knights of the Cape its name. Peru's Ricardo Palma, who called his stories Tradiciones Peruanas was a tradition and a classic himself before he died in 1919 at the age of 86. He had fought against the Spanish at Callao and against the Chileans at Miraflores. He was once editor of the great Prensa in Buenos Aires, and returned to Lima to rebuild the National Library which the Chileans had pillaged...
...scarcely more than $50,000. But it pegged the German luftweb on the West Coast, connected with a route reaching straight across South America from Rio de Janeiro, thus was important out of all proportion to its size. When two German freighters were scuttled in the Peruvian harbor of Callao last week (see p. 41), troops rushed to the L.P. airport at Limatambo. There they found Ernest Eilers, L.P. manager, and Ernest Krefft, manager of Kosmos-Hapag Steamship Agency, preparing to flee from Peru in the L.P. Junkers. The troops took over...