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Captain Cook's First Voyage

You're Dead to Me

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Are the Tahitians Genuinely Pissed Off With the British?

Tahitians have a very important system of gifting and hospitality, as most pacific island cultures do. And they are often left feeling that europeans did not respect their lands,. Their food, their culture, their bodies, et cetera. Europeans could not understand mhy tahitians are so brazenly stealing things all the time. So they're really flemixed. They also actually esteem, at this time, a god of theft named hiro. It was considered ok if you got away with theft, but not ok if you were caught. If your boat sinks cause yo ran out of nails from trading it for sex, which spreads venereal disease

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