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“Sails”

Cabrillo held up a hand “Sails didn’t appear until two thousand years after the period we’re talking about”

Eric scrolled down on the laptop sitting in front of him on the conference-room table “Here’s a direct translation: ‘From two stout poles anchored to the deck a sheet of animal skins was stretched to catch the wind’ ” He looked up “Sounds like a sail to me”

“I’ll be da”

“The water eventually rose high enough to float the boat, and they started off It’s kind of ironic, because theybefore the water level stabilized Otherwise, they never would have made it out of the Black Sea Anyway, they stayed at sea er than a month In the places where they tried to land, they either couldn’t find freshwater or they were attacked by people already living there

“After five lunar months, countless storrounded, and no aet it free”

“Where?”

“The area is described as ‘a world of rock and ice’ ”

Julia leaned forward to catch Juan’s eye “This is where Eric and I started using so”

“Okay Where?”

“Northern Norway”

“Why Norway?”

Eric replied, “You found the tablets in a facility that Iical weapons The Japanese were very keen on this kind of research, unlike a certain ally that preferred ches”

“You mean the Nazis?”

“Who else would have given the tablets to them?”