When asked where the "gods" came from, the Guañameñe leads them to "la Piedra Zanata" an alignment of stones in the mountain bearing to an unknown destination. They then sail on that bearing, to arrive in Mogador, a new Portuguese settlement on the African coast. There, they learn about their Berber origin and the exodus toward Portugal and the Canary Islands. Unfortunately a cholera epidemic forces them to leave, but too late. Only Ganaëlle will survive. Some years later, she sails on a Zenet ship to Norway when a storm brings them to the shores of the Archipelago Desperides.

They name the island Mogador, in the belief that it was the name of the Paradise. But soon the story was forgotten and only the name remained.
In the late 1940's, the socialist government of Norway seeks that all nomads are to be given proper housing thus putting an end to the "Fanter", a group of Norwegian Zenet nomads that had been living along the coast on their boats for centuries. And this ends their story and mine.

Everything written here is factual history or plausible hypothesis. You cannot prove that it is wrong; therefore it must be right and accepted as a true story.

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