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...TiKi (304 pp.)-Thor Heyerdahl -Rand McNally...
...Tiki, whose activities were headlined throughout the summer...
...Tiki was doing all right. Last week, the men on the big log raft (modeled after an ancient Peruvian balsa) sighted the first land they had seen since leaving Callao, Peru, three months and 4,100 miles ago (TIME, April 21). It was the island of Puka Puka, easternmost atoll of the Tuamotu archipelago. To the six Scandinavian scientists on the Kon-Tiki, the smudge of land was proof of their theory that ancient, pre-Inca Indians might have traveled across the Pacific from Peru to Polynesia on big, homemade rafts, carried by the south equatorial current. Sailing...
According to reports from its feeble radio, often picked up by "hams," the Kon-Tiki's voyage had been reasonably uneventful. There had been one moderate storm, which did not endanger the buoyant raft. Whales, dolphins and sharks had played around her slowly drifting hulk, and the crew caught lots of fish...
...Tiki reaches Tahiti or the Marquesas, leader Thor Heyerdahl will claim to have proved his favorite anthropological theory: that ancient Peruvians in original-model balsas may have covered the same route many centuries...