xkcd #3251: Time Machine Conversation
Title text:
It’s possible to do sea navigation without a compass, but you’ll have to get some spoilers from the Polynesians.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3251/


Unless there were survivors from the shipwreck and this person’s family wasn’t among them.
Even then they might have survived but not made it back.