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On February 14, 1779, natives of Hawaii killed the famous Captain James Cook, a great English explorer and seaman, on his third visit to this Pacific island group.
In January 1778 he first visited the Hawaiian Islands.
Cook and his crew were greeted by enchanted Hawaiians, who admired the large ships of Europeans.
It is suspected that the Hawaiians attached religious importance to the Europeans’ first stay on their islands.
At the time of Cook’s arrival, the locals organized a festival dedicated to Lonoi, the fertility god. Cook and his compatriots were welcomed as gods and exploited the goodwill of Hawaiians for the next month. Their relationship first became strained after one of the crew members died, as his death showed that Europeans were also mortals.
On February 4, 1779, British ships sailed from Kealakekua Bay, but terrible sea storms damaged the top of the Resolution ship and after only a week at sea the expedition was forced to return to Hawaii. The Hawaiians stoned Cook and his men, on which occasion James Cook was killed.
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Did you know that Cook made his people eat lemon, oranges and sauerkraut?
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Do you know why?
I have no idea. Very interesting.
Lemons and citrus fruit prevented scurvy!
Cook opened a part of the world in what was a bad way in the end.
The exploitation of ignorance is never a good thing. It is possible things would have ended differently if Mr. Cook had just told the natives that he and his crew were NOT gods. When ignorance turns into knowledge and the people realize that you’ve been making fools out of them all along, I could see how that might piss them off!
it did an was very sad in the end.
I did not know this and found it very interesting. This is a bit of history that wasn’t in our history books in high school!
Many things we can learn out of our school books. This is one of them.
Interesting history lesson here. Take care!
Thank you, dear! Take care, too! How is there?