In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across the Pacific, received from a Polynesian priest named Tupaia an astonishing gift—a map ...
James Cook, 29 April 1770 This is the moment, 250 years ago, that two worlds collided. In a hostile encounter, British explorer Captain ... a Tahitian Polynesian translator, Tupaia, who ...
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