"Was James Cook a flogging captain? " Topic
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| Tango01 | 18 Aug 2018 4:15 p.m. PST |
"Somehow, I missed this story in our local paper, the Dominion Post, or I would have searched out this book much earlier. I already knew that Captain James Cook, very involved with his self-image, and how he appeared to his superiors, was inclined to fudge certain items in his journals. For instance, he altered the date of Tupaia's death on the voyage of the Endeavour, to make it seem impossible that this Polynesian genius, priest, and star navigator could have died from complications from scurvy. Determined to go down in history as the first captain to circumnavigate the world without losing a single man from scurvy (a feat that Captain Samuel Wallis of the 1766 voyage of the Dolphin had already accomplished), it did not serve his purposes to leave any hint that Tupaia might have suffered mortally from that dreadful disease of the sea. However, until I found Captain Cook's Discipline, I did not know that Cook also veiled the number of floggings on board his ships, by merely noting that "nothing remarkable" had happened on flogging days…."
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| 14Bore | 18 Aug 2018 5:05 p.m. PST |
Nearing the end of Patrick O'Brien series, its definitely a interesting subject |
| cosmicbank | 19 Aug 2018 5:13 a.m. PST |
He only Flogged on weekends |
| Tango01 | 19 Aug 2018 2:42 p.m. PST |
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