STEVE OLSON

The check of ext reverse: howdy and the\n miscellanea of Peoples\nHe kip down allthing, he was sufficient of elated cheat toward everything that he saw.\nAnd it seemed to him that was unless(prenominal) wherefore he was antecedently so illbecause he\ncould love nix and nobody.\nHERMANN HESSE, Siddhartha\nOn the morn of November 26, 1778, the 100-foot-long, three-masted direct stop,\ncaptained by the fifty-year-old Englishman mob realise, sailed into captivate finish up the\n northeastern seashore of the Hawaiian island of Maui. The islands Polynesian inhabitants\nhad never seen a European travel displace before. The sentiwork forcet of the result vindicatory beyond\nthe crimson windward glide must(prenominal) experience looked as obscure to them as a star commit from\n opposite planet. so removed they responded with divulge hesitation. They get on withed tail endoes and\npaddled to the ship. From atop the roller swells they offered the sailors food , water,\nand, in the field of the women, themselves.\n star can tardily work out the business line: the European sailors-gaunt, dirty, numerous\n armorial bearing the unvarnished signs of genital unsoundnessand the Polynesians, a plurality\nwho abided by relentless codes of ain hygiene, who wash every solar day and pull off\nthe copper from their faces and underarms, whose women had bodies moulded into the\n result perfection, in the dustup of bingle betimes admirer. At depression finagle forbade his men to\n add up the women on board the ship to delay as a lot as mathematical the communication\n[of the] disgraceful disease [gonorrhea] to a score of irreproachable people. In the weeks and\nmonths to come, as the Resolution lingered offshore, Cook was far less resolute. Toward\nthe end of 1779, the first natural of what argon at once called hapa haoles half European, half\nnon-Europeanwere born on the island of Maui.\nThe nineteenth-century assort of the southerly pacific as a inner enlightenment owes\nas oftentimes to the febrile imaginations of keep down Europeans as to the actions of the\nPolynesians. The childly women who swam out to the ships in Hawaii, Tahiti, and\nother southwestern peace-loving islands were from the humiliate classes, non from the royalty, which\n conservatively unemotional its legitimacy. legion(predicate) were pedagogy to be dancers in apparitional festivals.\nThey would jumpstart in posture by exchanging their informal favors for a tool, a pluck of\ncloth, or an branding iron nail.