Nainoa's Story of the Canoe

Nainoa, wanting to learn how to navigate the canoe, went to the far South Pacific and found one of the three or four remaining living navigators who had these skills. He was taught in this tradition to read the waves, the five levels of waves, to look at the kinds of clouds, to see the halo around the moon. And when Nainoa first did the longest voyage, 10,000 kilometers to Easter Island across this vast Pacific to these little islands, he fell asleep toward the end and he was lost. But as he sat there picturing the islands, a cloud broke and there was this ray of moonlight in one direction and he followed it and the next