Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Davis contends that the reverse is true: the Polynesians sailed to Peru. To prove it, the Miru journeyed engineless 6,750 miles from New Zealand to Peru via a current that flowed in exactly the opposite direction to the one used by the raft Kon-Tiki. This part of the voyage took 67 storm-tossed days...
...stubby 45-foot ketch, the Miru, Davis, his wife, two sons, and two crewmen sailed 10,000 miles from Wellington, New Zealand, to Peru, through the Panama Canal, and along the eastern seaboard to Boston...
According to Coolidge, Davis immediately accepted, and Coolidge set about getting him a fellowship. A pharmaceutical company obliged with $3,000, but Davis had left even before he knew he won the fellowship. Davis put his life savings into the boat and provisions. The New Zealand government gave him $30 for expenses...
Davis said that he was hit by four severe storms; the two worst were off New Zealand. The second storm swept everything off the Miru's deck--including loose lines and the ketch's compass. This storm lasted five days, and several 65-foot waves managed to crash over the mainmast...
Davis set sail from New Zealand during the summer. He wanted to test a thesis of his on the trip from New Zealand to Peru--that the currents which took the Polynessians across the Pacific also went the other way, and they could have returned to Peru merely by shifting currents. It took him 68 storm-battered days to reach Peru...