on board, and they were members of the cara squire community group who. the care squire had lived in along the coast of chile 400 years back, and they had adapted to the very extreme conditions, they tended to travel in small, familiar groups. they lived almost exclusively off marine resources. they spent most of their time in canoes. they were so well adapted to the region that nasa later, centuries later, when it was looking into how humans might adapt to the inhospitable elements of space, actually studied the care of squire in the region in the cara squire, for example. they would keep by always keeping a fire going in there, even in their canoes and most importantly, they knew how to find food. they would travel up and down coastline for a hundred miles. they knew where the fish were located and the reefs with sea urchins that could be in where mussels and limpets could be in. and they provided and offered a lifeline to the castaways they went out and actually brought them food. but this is also a story about imperialism and the prejudices that us an