Inca Tupac Yupanqui

Legends of peoples arriving by sea were part of oral history, passed down in Peru over centuries. It is said that the Inca Tupac Yupanqui himself led an expedition to research them. He once spoke to merchants who claimed that they had come by sea. The merchants told him they had come from two islands out in the Pacific: the one they called Ava Chumbi, and the other Nina Chumbi. (Nina Chumbi means "fire island." Were these the volcanic islands Hawaii and Japan?) Inca Tupac, with a full fleet of ships and 20,000 men, set sail into the west in search of these mysterious islands and returned in a year....
    When the Spaniards came to Peru, the Inca ruler of the time told them that his Empire had been founded by a people of seafarers who had once long ago crossed 2,000 miles of Ocean to reach his land.