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B bamalamalu Tiki Socialite Joined: Mar 20, 2006 Posts: 1288	B bamalamalu Posted posted on Sun, Jul 18, 2010 3:38 PM Mau Piailug will never be as famous as Capt. James Cook, a master of the classic European feat of discovering places with people already in them. But Piailug, who died last week at the age of 78, could have matched Cook’s voyaging island for island across the vast immensity of the Pacific, and without charts, compass or sextant. He was a palu, a master navigator, one of the last experts in the ancient art of Pacific Ocean wayfaring. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/opinion/18sun4.html?_r=2&th&emc=th

Mau Piailug will never be as famous as Capt. James Cook, a master of the classic European feat of discovering places with people already in them. But Piailug, who died last week at the age of 78, could have matched Cook’s voyaging island for island across the vast immensity of the Pacific, and without charts, compass or sextant. He was a palu, a master navigator, one of the last experts in the ancient art of Pacific Ocean wayfaring.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/opinion/18sun4.html?_r=2&th&emc=th

Post #543296 by bamalamalu on Sun, Jul 18, 2010 3:38 PM