In 1636 the boat of Massachusetts trader John Oldham was seen anchored off Block Island, swarming with Indians.
Everett borrowed a boat from river traders and trekked through the jungle for days to get her to a hospital.
Recent archaeological finds and new interpretations of historical documents, he said, cast a new light on the Vikings, also known as the Norse, as more than horn-helmeted warriors: successful boat builders and traders, canny navigators and explorers who planted colonies across a northern arc of the Atlantic.
In 1636 the boat of a Massachusetts trader named John Oldham was found near Block Island, overrun by Indians.
Mr. Corcoran, who was a bond trader at the time and also dabbled in party-boat charters, was impressed.
As I walked to the shoreline, it was easy to make the mental leap back in time, to when Acker himself was earning a living as a boat-builder and coastal trader here.
When the discovery of the Patagonian link was announced, most speculation focused on the idea that the yeast could have arrived in the timbers of boats of early traders to and from South America.
More than 4,000 men on more than 90 transports (mainly fishing boats and coastal traders), escorted by six colonial guard ships, descended on Canso, where the expedition waited for the ice to clear from Gabarus Bay, the site just south of Louisbourg that had been chosen for the troop landing.
Eugene Kabambi, communications officer for WHO, said traders traveling by boat down the Congo River were bringing the disease from an area where an outbreak infected more than 680 people and killed 32 this month.
