Blue Latitudes - Beyond Tiki

JT Jungle Trader Member Trader's Jungle Outpost, Turlock, Ca. Joined: Jan 04, 2003 Posts: 3772	JT Jungle Trader Posted posted on Thu, Sep 18, 2003 5:34 PM Bong, what the hell.....fiction or make believe? HA! Juno answered your question. It's real braddah. So you sold the board to someone else for mo' money eh? Yay yah, the author tells us in the first chapter that when they landed on Tahiti, Cook's crew traded nails from off the ship to Tahitian women for sex. The Tahitian men would then fashion the nails into fish hooks. Soon the ship was nearly stripped of all nails and falling apart. So Cook prohibited anyone from trading nails. Several men were caught and given a lashing....ooooh. It was probably worth it. Except for the next 100 years the native population of Tahiti dropped from about a quarter mil to about 7,000 as the result of sexually transmitted diseases and other scurges. Interesting.

Bong, what the hell.....fiction or make believe? HA! Juno answered your question. It's real braddah. So you sold the board to someone else for mo' money eh?

Yay yah, the author tells us in the first chapter that when they landed on Tahiti, Cook's crew traded nails from off the ship to Tahitian women for sex. The Tahitian men would then fashion the nails into fish hooks. Soon the ship was nearly stripped of all nails and falling apart. So Cook prohibited anyone from trading nails. Several men were caught and given a lashing....ooooh. It was probably worth it. Except for the next 100 years the native population of Tahiti dropped from about a quarter mil to about 7,000 as the result of sexually transmitted diseases and other scurges. Interesting.

Post #51826 by Jungle Trader on Thu, Sep 18, 2003 5:34 PM