Word: safi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voyage had begun. A tug towed the 12-ton papyrus craft out of the harbor at Safi, Morocco, and then cast off, leaving Thor Heyerdahl and his crew to sail their weird wicker boat 4,000 miles across the Atlantic to Central America. The Norwegian adventurer, who proved with Kon-Tiki that man could navigate a raft across the Pacific from Peru to Polynesia, hopes to show that ancient Egyptians discovered the New World long before Columbus. After four days, Heyerdahl radioed that Ra was 133 miles along the predicted track, riding a strong current and floating well-quieting...
...balsa logs. Now Author-Explorer Thor Heyerdahl, 54, plans to navigate the Atlantic in a 45-ft. by 15-ft. craft made of papyrus, to prove his theory that people from ancient Mediterranean civilizations could have made the journey. Heyerdahl and a crew of six will shove off from Safi, Morocco, next month, charting a course through the Canary Islands to Central America, where traces of what seems to be primitive Old World cultures have been found. Until now Heyerdahl kept very quiet about it. "Otherwise," he says, "I would have drowned in letters from adventurers wanting to join...