Voyage of The Kon Tiki

In 1947, six men on a log raft made a surprising voyage. Using only the power of wind and ocean currents they traveled 4300 miles. Erik wrote about the voyage.

Erik left his wife and doughter and went to Oslo. He wanted to insure his life, but no one did it. He met a new friend in a ship, he was orchids collectioner. When they got to Panama there were a lot of events (customs officers took Christobals gun). Next morning hhe traveled to Balboa by train. Then Eric went to Lima by plane. There he met other members of the Kon-tiki.

There were many people in Peru who knew Kon-tiki. After 1500 years they began to think about the legend. He wanted to know where did polynesians come from. He worked at tiki legend for many years and came to the conclusion that the Polynesians originated in south America and that Kon-tiki from Peru and Tiki in Polynesia were the same pperson.

No one believed in him. So Thor decided to prowe that a raft of balsa wood can carry men 4300 miles across the open sea. With crew of Kon-tiki he made a raft (as exact copy as possible). Norwegian captain ssaid that they will sink. But men had no time to think about it.

On April 27 the raft was christened with a coconut and received the name Kon-tiki.

Bengt and Eric went to shops. Then Kon-tiki gone out of the decorated port. When they came in the port they saw the other members of Kon-tiki in the boat. Bengt and Erik jumped in the boat, and swam to the Kon-tiki. They had to clear the deck of newspaper men. Boats followed them untill the night. First days they had two passangers cockroaches. Crab jumped over to them. The third night there was a bad weather Knut was sick of seasickness. One day they met a big octopus whom they were afraid, ddolphins, flying fish. One night a snakelike fish jumped at the cabin into Torsteins sleeping bag. That fish was called Gempylus. One day they wanted to cath a turtle. But he went on it’s own way.

Kon-tiki trip and troubles in the sea. Every one had to be on duty, but without his duty each man had his job on boards besides his watch. Members of the Kon-tiki saw a lot of interesting things. Their food was different. They ate tunny, ssharks, tinned food, coconuts and cereals. They were like six brothers. Everyone was in fine health, exept author, he got rheumatism, because of the bad weather. One day Herman ...