DRIFTING RAFT HAS COVERED 500 MILES
Received Tuesday,. 7 p.m.. NEW YORK, May 12. A report froih' the Kon Tiki'. raft places' the expeditiofi- which is- drifting from Peru to- the Marquesas, at 84 degrees' 37 mifiiit'es weSt a'nd 9 degrees- south. The raft' has thus> covered about 500 miies, averaging". 50 miles' dfiil'y siiice' it- left Gall'ao on Apfil' 28 aiid waS" east adHftj by' a tug which' fOWed it 150 mileS SOttthV ward a'long thC cbast.. The' raft} Whicli' iS cbfiSti'U'cted df bal'sa Wood1 and5 bambbO} i^' manUea' by six bTorwegian Scie'ntiSts" wli'tf are seeking to prove* by' a 40"0(5-mife' drif t, that pfehist'ofib fafii vbyagefa from South Aifieri'ca, Whb were" wh'ite m'eii, originaily settled - the Sbufh: Sea islands, The scientists, t'o while away the fedium. of tl^e voyag-e' which' iS expebt'ed to take f-duf itfbnths, are" teaching each othbr- PfeiiChv Spaifish and other- subjectsi- ' ^hey have ti green parrot with tliem and its vocabulary they are'' also- enlarging^im Norwegian.
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Chronicle (Levin), 14 May 1947, Page 5
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