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To: lainie
An estimated 3,000 people packed onto ferries that set out from Fisherman's Wharf for Alcatraz in the pre-dawn darkness Thursday, according to organizers.

Buncha ingrates. If it wasn't for the white man, they would've had to have crammed themselves into a dug-out tree trunk instead of a spacious ferry to get to that island.

62 posted on 11/24/2005 5:55:26 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: Texas Eagle
Dugouts? What about birch veneer/plywood bateaux from the Mississippi Valley?

They were making some good stuff back in the old days. The South Americans built substantial boats that enabled them to mount an invasion from what is now Venezuela to conquer Hispanola and other Caribbean islands just a few years before the arrival of the Spanish.

73 posted on 11/24/2005 6:03:19 PM PST by muawiyah (u)
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