Kon-Tiki
There are many islands in the South Pacific Ocean and no one knowhow the people who live on these islands came to be there. They are very much like people who once lived in Peru on the west coast of South America. There is a legend that, when their country was attacked and conquered, these people left Peru on rafts and set off across the sea to the west. Wholesale designer handbags, the legend was that they were taken across the sea by one of their ancestors, Tike, son of the sum.
A Norwegian, Thor Heyerdahl, believed that they may have reached the south pacific islands. He noticed that they had only simple rafts made of very by strong winds and currents, even though they had only simple rafts made of very light wood called balsa-wood. His idea was laughed at but he decided to prove it. With five other brave men, he built a raft just like the one Tiki would have used, and they set out to repeat the great voyage across 4000 miles of open sea, which they believed Tiki’s people once make.
Heyerdahl’s raft was made of nine balsa-wood logs tied together with ropes. The longest log was 45 feet long. No nails were used, wholesale replica designer handbags, for nails would not have been used by Tiki’s men. The deck was made of split bamboo, and the bamboo cabin was lined with mats and roofed with banana leaves. Two masts carried a great sail, on which was painted a picture of Tiki, and the raft was called “Kon-Tiki”. They took on board such food as fruit and dried food and coconuts, but they expected to live mainly on fish. They took a parrot as a pet. Fake designer bags, when all was ready, the raft with the six young men aboard was towed out from Callao harbor in Peru, and cast off at the mercy of winds and currents.
Their greatest danger was of falling overboard, as they realized too well when their precious parrot was blown overboard, as they realized too well when their precious parrot was blown overboard in a storm and lost. The light raft was driven along at so great a speed by the wind and current that it could not possibly be stopped, so whatever went over board was almost certain to be lost. One of their party was nearly lost this way. A sudden gust of wind blew Torstein’s sleeping-bag overboard, and Herman, wholesale replica handbags, trying to catch it, fell in to the sea. They threw a lifebelt, but it was blown back on board. They launched the rubber boat, but that was useless. Then Knut, carrying a lifebelt, while those on board pulled with all their strength until they just managed to bring the swimmers back to safety. All six men were very quiet and thoughtful that night.
After three months at sea they saw their first island and smelled smoke from a fire. They had reached the pacific islands of Tuamotu, just as Heyerdahl had hoped.
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