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Article: Captain Cook, Anthropologist.
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- February 23, 2004
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James Cook was on his second Pacific Ocean voyage, anchored off New Zealand, when a Maori father brought his 10-year-old son onboard. Cook's sailors had made much of the notion that the Maori people were trying to sell their children, and Cook presumed that this was the man's intention. But it turned out the gesticulating father merely wanted a shirt for his son. Mulling over the incident later, the seasoned explorer wrote: "This story, though extreamly trifling in its self, will show how liable we are to misstake these peoples meaning and to ascribe to them customs they never knew even in thought."
For more than two centuries, Cook has been hailed as one of the ...
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