But when he was not voyaging he lived mainly in Portugal and Spain.

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The great voyaging canoes might not have survived, but the cargo of language, culture and knowledge that they brought to the islands certainly has.

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He makes light of the difficulties, delays and discomforts of voyaging through a part of the world where bureaucrats and bedbugs plague the traveller.

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Still, anyone who thinks that Muslims will be discouraged from making the haj is underestimating the appeal of a spiritual journey in which people forget their worldly concerns and share the hazards and joys of voyaging and praying with their co-religionists.

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The Meeting was attended by representatives of the Pacific state parties to the 2003 ICH Convention as well as Cook Islands experts including representative of the House of Ariki (traditional chiefs), officers at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of education, representative of the Cook Islands Voyaging Society and other civil society organisations.

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