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Davis set sail from Wellington, New Zealand, on May 31, 1952, to prove that Polynesian natives might have sailed to Peru in ancient times. The raft sail of the Kon-Tiki proved the converse; that Peruvian natives might have sailed to the Polynesian islands...
...high seas. Included in the excitement: pirates taking over a slave ship, a battle between the ship's officers and the shanghaied crew, a hunt for buried treasure in the South Seas, a fight between a shark and Hurricane Smith (John Ireland). Also aboard is an exotic half-Polynesian girl (Yvonne de Carlo) who does a native love dance on the deck of the pirate ship dressed in the sketchiest of sarongs...
Davis, whose hobby is Polynesian anthropology, decided to sail from his home in New Zealand to Pern and test a thesis: That the route the raft "Kon-tiki" took from Peru to the Polynesian Islands was actually a two-way thoroughfare...
...Gwynne Vanderbilt's undefeated, two-year-old Native Dancer, the $107,545 Belmont Futurity, in the world-record-equaling time of1 min. 14 2/5 sec. for 6½ furlongs; on the Widener Course straightaway at Belmont. Odds-on choice at 1 to 3, the dark grey colt (by Polynesian, out of Geisha) brushed his opposition aside in the stretch to win his eighth straight race...
Rather he is testing a scientific theory and the trip to Cambridge is just a side event. A student of Polynesian anthoropology, the New Zealander believes that the raft "Kon-Tiki" which drifted from Peru to Tahiti could have made a round trip merely by switching currents...