Comments by "Bob" (@Bob-nd2mr) on "Captain James Cook: The incredible true story of the World's Greatest Navigator and Cartographer" video.

  1. Cook was not initially confronted because he arrived during the Hawain festival of LONO (peace) but when he returned after the mast broke it was the Hawain time of war, the festival season had ended and the season for battle and war had begun under the worship and rituals for Kūkaʻilimoku, the god of war. John Ledyard was the only American aboard Cook's ship during this time. Ledyard was present during the events leading up to and during Cook's death, and wrote a detailed account of the events in his journals. Cook went ashore to take the elderly chief (Kalaniʻōpu) and make the natives return a long boat that the Hawains had taken. Cook's men were confronted on the beach by an elderly priest who approached them holding a coconut and chanting. They yelled at the priest to go away, but he kept approaching them while singing the mele. When Cook and his men looked up from the old priest they saw that the beach was now filled with thousands of Native Hawaiians. Cook told the Kalaniʻōpuʻu to get up but the ruler refused. As the townspeople began to gather around them, Cook and his men began to back away from the crowd and raise their guns. Two warriors shielded the old chief as Cook tried to get him to his feet. One warrior (Kanaʻinas) angrily approached Cook, who reacted by striking him with the broad (flat) side of his sword. Kanaʻina jumped at Cook and grabbed him. Some accounts state that Kanaʻina did not intend to hit Cook while other descriptions say that he deliberately struck Cook across the head with his leiomano. Either way, Kanaʻina pushed Cook, who fell to the sand. As Cook attempted to get up, another warrior (Nuaa) lunged at him and fatally stabbed Cook in the chest with a metal dagger, obtained by trade from Cook's ship during the same visit. Cook fell with his face in the water. This caused a violent, close-quarters melee between the Hawaiians and Cook's men. Four of the Royal Marines were killed and two were wounded. The remaining sailors and marines, heavily outnumbered, continued to fire as they retreated to their small boat and rowed back to their ship, killing several of the angered people on the beach, including possibly High Chief Kanaʻina. A young William Bligh, the future captain of HMS Bounty (and the mutiny), later claimed to have been watching with a spyglass from Resolution as Cook's body was dragged up the hill to the town by the Native Hawaiians, where it was torn to pieces by them
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  2.  @eeeaten  by this time Cook was suffering from a bowel disease or parasite of some sort and was becoming very irrtable and I personally think that he had had enough and welcomed a quick death. An amazing man and nothing the weird woke fetish people will take away his standing in history. Quakers believe that a human can interact with God without any intermediary and if God is within us and not an old man in the sky or an idol of stone then we too have the same God within as Cook did.
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  3. o if only  @silvernova354 
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  4. 1 year later >>>> go woke go broke,<<<< seems to be coming true. Captain Cook still there in peoples imagination and history. Weirdoes, a footnote if that... low intelligence has its own reward they will find.
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