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Heyerdahl made it across the mighty Pacific Ocean in a log raft in
101 days [10] and across the Atlantic Ocean in a reed boat in 57 days [15],
and he felt they were safe vessels to travel on when appropriately built.
The first reed boat did fail, but when he had the second done by those who
were more familiar with creating reed crafts, it made the voyage easily with
no sign of wear to the boat.
So, if the Jaredites built either of these types of barges, no one
should have doubted that they could travel across the Great Siberian Sea.
Perhaps they were even more advanced than we can imagine and built
something even better. Nibley [5] says ancient people may have been far
more advanced than we think. He says evidence shows no continual rise in
advancement, but that knowledge and development rose and fell and rose
again. We do not know where technological development was at the time
of the Jaredites.

There is one last point to add here. The prevailing winds in Europe
and Asia are from the west to the east (westerlies), as seen in Figure 19.
(Arrows at the top of the image). This means that if the Jaredites launched
barges into the Great Siberian Sea, the direction of the winds would have
pushed them toward China.

Figure 19: Trade winds of the world

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