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What do we know about the mortality/success rate during the Polynesian voyages of migration? If I were a navigator signing up for one of these voyages do I stand a reasonable chance of ending up colonizing a new island or am I signing up for something more akin to a suicide mission?

by /u/Starks40oz in /r/AskHistorians

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