Warren Ockrassa wrote: > > Maybe the earliest settlers came over in skin boats? Were washed out to > sea by a typhoon and fetched up on the shores of, say, what's now > Chile? After all the Polynesians were astoundingly good seafarers. It's > not that far from Rapa Nui to the continent, if you've already crossed > the Pacific island chains. > I would bet the same way Pedro Alvares Cabral allegedly[*] came: by navigating away from African's coast, being caught in the Brazilian Sea Current, and hitting Brazil's Northeast.
Alberto Monteiro [*] the official version is that he came here by accident - but skeptics doubted it even back in 1500. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
