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Re: polynesian navigation.
From: Bill Morris
Date: 2010 Jul 30, 22:41 -0700
From: Bill Morris
Date: 2010 Jul 30, 22:41 -0700
For those who wish to judge Tupaia's map for themselves, I have attached a copy.
Cook seems to have valued Tupaia as a translator, but I cannot find a mention in his journal of the Endeavour that he thought much of him as a pilot.
Bill Morris
Pukenui
New Zealand
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