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There's nothing quite so colonialist as jotting down "ISLANDS OF DISAPPOINTMENT" on your map for generations of future travelers to see because the locals respo
by fixermark 8y ago
There's nothing quite so colonialist as jotting down "ISLANDS OF DISAPPOINTMENT" on your map for generations of future travelers to see because the locals responded to your desire to pillage their food supply by threatening you with spears and chucking rocks at your party.
- oh_sigh 8y agoIf their interaction was going to be similar to any other interaction with polynesians from Byron's excursion, it would have involved trading goods for food.
- sonnyblarney 8y agoBecause a ship full of people dying of scurvy can't be 'in need'?
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- rdiddly 8y agoHey look, if you threaten to kill me, and chase me off before I can ask you what the name of your island is, then on the maps for my own people, I get to name it whatever I want!
- sizzzzlerz 8y agoWouldn’t have mattered, anyway. Being a 18th century Brit and thus totally lacking any cultural sensitivities, Byron probably would have named the islands after the King’s favorite fox hunting hound.