6 Some thoughts on Native Hawaiian attitudes towards Captain Cook

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. List of illustrations vii
3. Contributors ix
4. Acknowledgements xii
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I The Years in England
8. 1 Cook’s nursery: Whitby’s eighteenth-century merchant fleet 5
9. 2 ‘Remember me to my good friend Captain Walker’: James Cook and the North Yorkshire Quakers 21
10. 3 James Cook and the Royal Society 37
11. Part II The Pacific Voyages
12. 4 ‘Notwithstanding our signs to the contrary’: textuality and authority at the Endeavour River, June to August 1771 57
13. 5 Tute: the impact of Polynesia on Captain Cook 77
14. 6 Some thoughts on Native Hawaiian attitudes towards Captain Cook 94
15. 7 Captain Cook’s command of knowledge and space: chronicles from Nootka Sound 110
16. Part III Captain Cook and his Contemporaries
17. 8 A comparison of the charts produced during the Pacific voyages of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville and James Cook 135
18. 9 Successors and rivals to Cook: the French and the Spaniards 161
19. 10 Russian responses to the voyages of Captain Cook 179
20. Part IV The Legacy of Captain Cook
21. 11 Redeeming memory: the martyrdoms of Captain James Cook and Reverend John Williams 199
22. 12 ‘As befits our age, there are no more heroes’: reassessing Captain Cook 230
23. 13 Retracing the Captain: ‘Extreme History’, hard tack and scurvy 246
24. Index 257