The Book of Mormon indicates that there was a western sea near the place of the American land of "first inheritance". (Alma 22:28) There is nothing in the Book of Mormon indicating that this west sea was saltwater. The biblical word "yam", translated "sea", doesn't necessarily mean ocean. An early Mormon document in the handwriting of Frederick G. Williams speculates that Lehi's company "sailed in a southeast direction and landed on the Continent of South America in Chili thirty degrees south latitude." This document greatly influenced a tradition that Lehi's family voyaged across the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the vast Pacific Ocean. Twentieth Century LDS Church authorities, however, called the Williams document into question. The idea that the "west sea" of the Book of Mormon is the Pacific Ocean has, nevertheless, persisted in localized Central American, South American and exaggerated hemispheric settings for the Book of Mormon.