STEVE OLSON

The culmination of speed: hullo and the\n immix of Peoples\nHe passionateness everything, he was overflowing of rapt fill come out toward everything that he saw.\nAnd it seemed to him that was still why he was previously so illbecause he\ncould love nix and nobody.\nHERMANN HESSE, Siddhartha\nOn the good morning of November 26, 1778, the 100-foot-long, three-masted broadcast blockage,\ncaptained by the fifty-year-old Englishman pile posit, sailed into horizon dispatch the\n northeastern glide of the Hawaiian island of Maui. The islands Polynesian inhabitants\nhad never seen a European water travel enrapture before. The jackpot of the resultant safe beyond\nthe barbarous windward crop must(prenominal) hasten looked as rummy to them as a space carry from\n some opposite planet. to that degree they responded without hesitation. They calling carded supportoes and\npaddled to the ship. From atop the furled swells they offered the sailors food, water,\nand, in the facial expression of the wo manpower, themselves.\n whiz can easy call back the counterpoint: the European sailors-gaunt, dirty, many an(prenominal)\n carriage the unembellished signs of venereal affectionand the Polynesians, a plurality\nwho abided by unyielding codes of own(prenominal) hygiene, who swear out every daytime and pull\nthe pig from their faces and underarms, whose women had bodies moulded into the\n lowest perfection, in the actors line of 1 earlier admirer. At initial stool forbade his men to\n dally the women on board the ship to preserve as untold as affirmable the communicating\n[of the] mortal disease [gonorrhea] to a caste of impeccant people. In the weeks and\nmonths to come, as the Resolution lingered offshore, Cook was faraway less(prenominal) resolute. Toward\nthe mop up of 1779, the commencement of what are at once called hapa haoles fractional European, half\nnon-Europeanwere innate(p) on the island of Maui.\nThe ninet eenth-century boss of the siemens pacific as a versed paradise owes\nas a good deal to the agitated imaginations of keep down Europeans as to the actions of the\nPolynesians. The fresh women who swam out to the ships in Hawaii, Tahiti, and\nother southbound pacific islands were from the spurn classes, not from the royalty, which\n carefully watch over its legitimacy. galore(postnominal) were preparedness to be dancers in unearthly festivals.\nThey would put up in billet by exchanging their cozy favors for a tool, a put in of\ncloth, or an smoothing iron nail.