Taking a long trip at sea

Usage examples of voyaging.

He formed an inclination for voyaging while he was still young, and he prospered both in property and public esteem.

Biarni now went to his father, gave up his voyaging, and remained with his father while Heriulf lived, and continued to live there after his father.

I have still attempted to view the Polynesian themes in relation to early oceanic voyaging elsewhere.

Two centuries of navigation by the highly sophisticated system of latitude and longitude, which took 5,000 years to evolve, have made us forget the romance and difficulties of early voyaging without modern aids.

These islands lie on either side of the chain of islands stretching from Sumatra to Formosa, forming an archipelago favourable to the development of local voyaging and with oceans dotted with islands on either side.

The Gilbert and Ellice Islands form a thin chain across the prevailing winds and currents, making voyaging so hazardous that the Gilbertese had a customary law that when some of their people were swept away in storms, their property was divided after a certain time.

Tahitian deliberate long two-way voyaging made by Cook and his associates and by Bougainville.

Cook, far from being an authority who supports the belief in Polynesian voyaging to and from distant islands, is decidedly the opposite.

Polynesian voyaging is that a vessel which is fast when running with the wind is for that reason suitable for ocean voyages.

Because they are unpredictable, often intermittent, and frequently violent, however, they would have been unreliable for systematic long voyaging from west to east.

European observers who saw Polynesian voyaging for themselves was over the direction from which the Polynesian ancestors came to their islands rather than over how they got there.

Polynesian navigators, having discovered distant islands, sailed back to their home islands and then colonized their discoveries arose from European interpretations of Eastern Polynesian, Hawaiian, and New Zealand Maori voyaging traditions.

Savaii as the vaguely remembered traditional homeland of the Eastern Polynesians, Hawaiians, and New Zealand Maoris, one might expect to find that traditional memories of Tonga, as well as Samoa, persisted in the voyaging traditions of those peoples.

Samoa and Tonga persisted in Eastern Polynesian, Hawaiian, and New Zealand voyaging traditions, it is not surprising that traces of a previous knowledge of Fiji did also.

In this section we shall review some place-names in Eastern Polynesian voyaging traditions which have been repeatedly cited as evidence of alleged prehistoric contacts over long distances, but which, when viewed in relation to an Eastern Polynesian provenance from Savaii, acquire a new significance.