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it in your book.

On course, first voyage, the ships spent several months off the island of Tahiti and the

British developed close relationships with a host of islanders. It wasn't one of these

passing encounters where they exchanged a few things or interacted violently. It was a

sustained interaction. One of the most extraordinary aspects of this interaction was that Tupaya,

who was a priest, a navigator, a political player in the dynamics of the Tahitian kingdoms

at that time, he was clearly extremely interested in these people who had appeared from beyond

the known universe at that particular time. He was interested in why they were there and

what they were doing. He spent a great deal of time with Joseph Banks and with Cook. When

Tupaya came for the ship to Tahitian, he wanted to join the voyage. He took a young boy,

a servant with him and his interest was in visiting England and learning what he could

about a society that he knew nothing about before. Cook, of course, was very interested in

the geography of the Pacific. There were clearly islands that had never been visited by Europeans.

He clearly made inquiries of Tupaya. He tried to learn as much as he could from him. A number

of the British had some grasp of Tahitian they could communicate. Tupaya obviously witnessed

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