Reply #22: there wasn't a passage, ergo they didn't KNOW there was a passage, they hoped for one [View All]

[pitohui]

read the story more carefully, the reason it's news is that the northwest passage did not actually exist until just recently

this is the first ever commercial shipment thru the northwest passage

it did not exist in the days of henry hudson nor did the "fountain of youth" exist that was sought by ponce de leon, even though TODAY we may have botox and face-lifts and implants, it doesn't mean that ponce de leon KNEW of botox, it meant that he followed a myth

as did the original seekers of the northwest passage --- they had a dream of such a shortcut as some had a dream of the renewal of youth, but that's all it was back then -- a dream