Friday, December 19, 2014

Kon-Tiki chapter two cont.

Thor found men three more men who wanted to go on the voyage so now there are six men.  They have to work quickly because there are only three months left until they wanted to set off on the voyage.  Because of this fact, they have to hurry to get everything taken care of.

The American army gave them rations to test and a lot of other equipment all for free. Because of all the rushing from country to country, they ran out of money.  They sent to the man in New York who was sponsoring them for the trip, but he was sick and could not give them money at the time.  That meant they did not have any money to keep going and yet they had to keep going.  Some people who knew about their trip came and gave them money and said they could pay them back when they returned.  Now they could go and make the boat.

To make a boat they had to go to Peru to get the wood that the men who originally crossed would have used.  To make it easier for them in the long run they had to go to the United Nations headquarters to talk to the President of Peru.  For if they were to just come into Peru taking wood, people would become very suspicious and they could probably be thrown into jail.
They spoke to the president and also to the Ambassador of Ecuador and they said that they would help them as much as they could.  

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