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旧手迹 发表于 2022-8-3 18:41
马克·吐温还在Roughing It 书中对殖民冒险家詹姆斯·库克James Cook之死作了点评

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马克吐温写的好像小说。

维基上写的，貌似夏威夷土著给Cook的葬礼待遇规格还很高。

The esteem which the islanders nevertheless held for Cook caused them to retain his body. Following their practice of the time, they prepared his body with funerary rituals usually reserved for the chiefs and highest elders of the society. The body was disembowelled and baked to facilitate removal of the flesh, and the bones were carefully cleaned for preservation as religious icons in a fashion somewhat reminiscent of the treatment of European saints in the Middle Ages. Some of Cook's remains, thus preserved, were eventually returned to his crew for a formal burial at sea.

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闲人看海 发表于 2022-8-6 10:43
马克吐温写的好像小说。

维基上写的，貌似夏威夷土著给Cook的葬礼待遇规格还很高。

Roughing it Chapter (71,72 )是马克·吐温的夏威夷游记加感想。夏威夷土著给Cook的厚葬是由于把他当成了夏威夷传说中的Lono 火神，之所以把他当成Lono 火神, 是因为他的船首次到达夏威夷时, 在晚上鸣枪，放烟花使当地人以为火神来了(这个不是小说). 马克·吐温也批评了Cook 利用土著愚昧而进行的欺诈