Thread 17910696

>a stranded Cabeza de vaca and a handful of others build a boat and sail their way from florida to mexico. none were shipbuilders
>French colonists at Charlesfort get attacked by natives, build a boat, and sail all the way back to france, none were shipbuilders

>in 500,000 years, no African ever sailed to Madagascar until after Polynesians in 500AD, who did so in canoes over 3000+ miles of open ocean with no islands to hop

Same thing in Western Africa. No human being had ever been in Annobon, Sao Tome or Principe until the Europeans arrived. Bioko at least had some Africans living there.