Cook
and his men attempted to recover a stolen boat by trying to take the high chief
hostage. This was, needless to say,
frowned upon. The Hawaiians stopped the
Brits from kidnapping their chief, and when Cook turned to retreat, natives hit
and stabbed him, “his face,” a shipmate wrote, “falling into the water.”
I have a friend whose father, a native of
Liverpool, refused to eat pineapples his entire life because he held a grudge
against Hawaiians for killing Britain’s greatest explorer.
(from Unfamiliar
Fishes, by Sarah Vowell)
8*/10. The full review is here.
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