Kidnapping of Kalaniʻōpuʻu by Captain James Cook Kidnapping of Kalaniʻōpuʻu by Captain James Cook Captain James Cook's 1779 attempted kidnapping of Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the ruling chief of the island of Hawaii and the decision to hold him in exchange for a stolen long boat (lifeboat) was the fatal error of Cook's final voyage, ultimately leading to Cook's death. Cook's arrival in Hawaii was followed by mass migrations of Europeans and Americans to the islands that ended with the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii, the aboriginal monarchy of the islands. James Cook led three separate voyages to chart unknown areas of the globe for the British Empire. It
Five Visions of Captain Cook Five Visions of Captain Cook "Five Visions of Captain Cook" (1931) is a poem by Australian poet Kenneth Slessor. It was originally published in the author's collection "Trio : A Book of Poems", and later appeared in numerous poetry anthologies. The poem "builds the character of Captain James Cook from the reactions of those who sailed with him on his three major voyages." In the essay "Kenneth Slessor : An Essay in Interpretation" (1997) A. K. Thompson noted: "The more carefully we read Cook's Journals the more impressive and convincing Slessor's reconstruction becomes and also the more unlikely it appears