Re: Amerindian navigators

["Larry J. Elmore" <ljelmore@montana.campus.mci.net>]

Matt Giwer <mgiwer9|9@primenet.com> wrote in article
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> 
> 	Has no one ever found the time to ask just why these people would
> be traveling across the Pacific? Government funded exploration? What
> could possibly be of such value that trade would motivate it? And
> then, where are the trade goods? 

They'd be traveling for the same reasons people have always traveled.
Curiosity, looking for new (empty) lands to settle or "new" inhabited lands
to trade with, or fleeing human enemies or disastrous climate changes.

There wouldn't have been much trade at all between South America and
Polynesia. No doubt about that.

Larry