Re: Amerindian navigators and Eurocentrism in scholarship

[yuku@mail.trends.ca (Yuri Kuchinsky)]

Hi, Ron,

You're quite right about coracles. These are fascinating. But... the Irish
used curraughs for long distance voyaging. These were also skin boats,
but much bigger. 

Ron Hopkins-Lutz (ronhl@juno.com) wrote:

	...

: Some fellow tried to show 
: that St. Brendan could have made to the Americas across the Atlantic in a 
: coracle,

Tim Severin? And in a curraugh.

: per some Irish sources. Don't remember if he actually made it,

Yes, he did.

: but : seems to me he did, or got so far to the West as to make no
matter.

Best regards,

Yuri.
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