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The expedition also proved that it would have been possible for traditionally built double outrigger vessels (dating back to early 8th Century AD as depicted at the Borobudur Temple, Indonesia) to have sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and as far as West Africa - a migration that some commentators believe was made by ancient Indo-Malay peoples.