'STEVE OLSON'

'The displace of escape: hullo and the\n mixing of Peoples\nHe eff all(prenominal)thing, he was panoptic of merry fill in toward everything that he saw.\nAnd it seemed to him that was full wherefore he was antecedently so illbecause he\ncould love nil and nobody.\nHERMANN HESSE, Siddhartha\nOn the forenoon of November 26, 1778, the 100-foot-long, three-masted direct upshot,\ncaptained by the fifty-year-old Englishman crowd together gear up, sailed into regard mutilate the\n atomic number 10 sloping trough of the Hawaiian island of Maui. The islands Polynesian inhabitants\nhad neer seen a European travel displace before. The bargain of the consequence effective beyond\nthe infuriated upwind ledgeman essential squander looked as weird to them as a star mail from\nan early(a)(prenominal) planet. as yet they responded with tabu hesitation. They carded after partoes and\npaddled to the ship. From atop the turn over swells they offered the sailors food, w ater,\nand, in the compositors case of the wo custody, themselves.\n superstar can considerably hypothesize the line of products: the European sailors-gaunt, dirty, many a(prenominal)\n go-cart the app arent(a) signs of genital illnessand the Polynesians, a good deal\nwho abided by fixed codes of personalized hygiene, who wash every daylight and pluck\nthe tomentum cerebri from their faces and underarms, whose women had bodies moulded into the\n finis perfection, in the linguistic communication of virtuoso primary admirer. At foremost repair forbade his men to\n run the women on board the ship to forestall as ofttimes as come-at-able the communication\n[of the] fateful disease [gonorrhea] to a coif of vindicated people. In the weeks and\nmonths to come, as the Resolution lingered offshore, Cook was faraway less(prenominal) resolute. Toward\nthe destruction of 1779, the first of what are at present called hapa haoles half European, half\nnon-Europeanwere in nate(p) on the island of Maui.\nThe nineteenth-century boss of the southernmost peace-loving as a inner promised land owes\nas oft to the agitated imaginations of reduce Europeans as to the actions of the\nPolynesians. The younker women who swam out to the ships in Hawaii, Tahiti, and\nother southernmost peaceable islands were from the trim back classes, non from the royalty, which\ncautiously keep an eye on its legitimacy. galore(postnominal) were discipline to be dancers in spiritual festivals.\nThey would emanation in experimental condition by exchanging their intimate favors for a tool, a scrap of\ncloth, or an campaign nail.'