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The Myth of the Sacred Calabash

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

P. Richards-Jones
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During my days of ‘tramping’ across the Pacific Ocean as an apprentice, I had heard vague references to the effect that the Polynesians used coconut shells as an aid to navigation. Intrigued as I was, the opportunity never presented itself for me to pursue the matter further until years later, by which time I knew that I was in search of the ‘Sacred Calabash’.

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The Journal of Navigation , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , October 1973 , pp. 480 - 481
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1973

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