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Canoes brought voyagers from southeast Asia to distant Pacific island homes centuries before Columbus braved the Atlantic, says the National Geographic Society’s new, revised edition of “Men, Slips, and the Sea.’’ Double canoes of Tonga, largest known in Polynesia, reached 100 feet and carried as many as 200 passengers.
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