To check the petulance of the Sailors, and restrain the wanton use of Fire Arms. To have it still in view that sheding the blood of those people is a crime of the highest nature.
Pacific explorer
Instructions given to his crew, reflecting a moral and ethical stance on human life and colonial responsibility.
1768 (as part of his instructions for the Endeavour voyage)
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"I have seen no inland part of any country so barren as this."
Strange & Unusual"They may appear human, but they are scarcely above brutes in their way of living."
Controversial"I can assert that the Natives are a very cowardly people."
Strange & Unusual"I have flogged men for less than what these natives dare to do in their insolence."
Controversial"I had the ambition to not only go farther than any man had been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go."
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