ADVENTURE BY RAFT
EeceiYed Sttnday, 7.20 p.m. CALLAO (PERU), April 26. Six Norwegian scientists will sail from Callao on an 18 x 45 feet balsa wood raft in an attempt to show how the ancient Peruvians could have crossed the 4000 miles of the Pacific to reach the South Sea Islands. Mr. Thor Heyerdahl, leader of the expedition, helieves the islands of the Tuainotu archipelago were first populated hy Peruvians who drifted across on rafts and he is determined to prove it. He expects the voyage to take four months. The raft, like the rafts of the ancient Peruvians, is lashed together with ropes and has a bamboo deck, bamboo cabin and a primitive square sail. rudder and oars. Modern conveniences include iron rations of the United States Army, sun cream, antiexposure suits and a radio with which daily weather reports will be broadcast, Mr. Heyerdahl will test life saving and communications equipment developed during the war' and collect oceanographic data. For entertainment during the drift the Norwegians are taking with them one guitar.
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Chronicle (Levin), 28 April 1947, Page 5
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