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To: Snowshoe who wrote (15801)	3/22/2007 10:47:49 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218149

Snowshoe, one of my cousins did a lot of study of that a decade or so ago. <I'm fascinated by the Polynesians finding and populating all those islands via catamaran canoe. Imagine heading out into the open ocean to search for new land! I wonder what percentage of the voyagers were lost in the attempt? > I had thought the Polynesians randomly sailed out into the ocean and that was the idea I had gathered during my childhood from various things [such as a disturbing, to me, painting of the discovery of NZ which showed a canoe with starving and dying people spotting NZ, like people lost on a life raft]. Not so. They were navigating as precisely as one could without sextants and other tools. They'd head out into the ocean on expeditions, cruise around the Pacific Ocean for some time then head back to base. Pretty much the same as Captain Cook and the other European explorers and most others who usually had intentions of going home after their explorations - which is the nature of living things in general. I doubt that all that many of them came to grief. Maybe fewer did than in European exploration, which was quite a problematic effort with sailors dying in droves, even without shipwrecks. The Pacific Ocean is called the Pacific Ocean for a reason. The local yokels would have been well aware of when storms were likely to be on the rampage and they'd stay ashore, like the hurricane season in the USA isn't a state secret. I think Maoris from the Cook Islands went tootling off here and there, finding somewhere pretty cool, heading back to base, getting a bunch of canoes, their families and friends, and heading off to the new headquarters, where one could stake a claim to umpty thousand or million hectares of lush land and ocean full of fish. No snakes, thorns, predators, or any other mammal. A very benign environment. They were like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Same as their more distant relatives who hiked overland into North America and on down to Argentina and Chile, which at the time were not separate countries and their currencies were stable. The Americas were like fantastically huge larders stocked with everything they could need. Humans breed quickly, as is required in nature, so it wasn't long in all those New Worlds before the old tooth and claw conflicts were underway in tribal genocide. Fortunately, other than in Africa and some other places, that "breed or perish" imperative to win tribal wars and conquer land and resources is a thing of the past and the main thing these days is to buy the latest CDMA powered phragmented photon cyberphone, bringing peace, light, harmony, happiness, health, prosperity, longevity, fun and love to the land. Maoris prefer CDMA to killing each other with meres [stone clubs for whacking brains]. Mqurice