Wandering around the Internet and reading the article, I feel more interesting, it is about Australian Prime Minister Morrison. Many people may have seen this news, the United Kingdom *** said that Morrison, on behalf of Australia, was invited by the United Kingdom to participate in the G7 summit, but actually concealed his personal itinerary, and twice secretly went to a place related to his fifth-generation great-grandfather to find his ancestors.
Some people may say that it's a good thing to find your roots and ask your ancestors, isn't that normal?
But when it comes to Morrison, it's a little abnormal.
He went to a place, Bodmin Prison.
Britain** checked the information, ah, it turned out that the fifth-generation grandfather of the current Australian prime minister was a thief, named William Roberts (William Roberts), who squatted in this prison and was later exiled to Australia.
On second look, heck, the prime minister's fifth-generation grandma turned out to be a thief too, and her name was Kezia Brown.
It is often said that Australia is a country of the descendants of criminals, and this is a real hammer.
Others seek their roots and ask their ancestors to confirm that their ancestors are great and their bloodlines are glorious. He searched for his roots and asked his ancestors, but the style of painting changed sharply, and he made such a scene, which is really breathtaking.
What's even darker is that the British ** deliberately picked up a story: Morrison's fifth-generation grandmother was exiled to Australia on the ship of the "Second Fleet"!
If you are familiar with a little bit of Australian history and know what this "Second Fleet" is, you will understand that the material exposed by Britain is simply a hammer blast to the current Australian prime minister.
What's going on?
It's a bit long. Let's start with a person's voyage.
Who is this man?
His name was James Cook, and he was often referred to as "Captain Cook".
At least for the Ansars, there was no navigator like him. The reason is also very simple, the other navigators are not theirs!
In the third edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Columbus discovered the New World is only three pages, and Magellan, who made his first complete voyage around the world, is introduced in only two paragraphs, with a detailed description of the Strait of Magellan in between, while Captain Cook is described on thirty-nine pages.
It all started in 1769.
In this year, a ship set sail from England, made of oak, turned out to be a coal carrier. When designed, this kind of boat was designed for practical purposes, with no bells and whistles, a flat bottom, a wide hull, and a fat round bow.
But it took a long time to choose it.
At that time, there were already a lot of British ships, and it was easy to find one.
The main thing is that the requirements of the new owner are high, and among the ships of the same batch, this ship must be the least famous.
Why? Only if there has been an accident, it will be in the newspaper.
So the ship alone was selected for more than a year.
Two institutions have joined forces: one is the Royal Society and the other is the Royal Navy. The Royal Society is responsible for assembling teams and preparing scientific instruments, and the Navy selects the ships and captains for the mission.
The original name of the coal carrier was the Earl of Pembroke and has now been renamed the Endeavour.
Because of this voyage, the name was widely known, and later there was a space shuttle in the United States called "Endeavour", and the origin of the name is here.
Cook was the Navy's chosen choice for captain.
The leading scientist on the Royal Society's side, led by Joseph Banks, was a botanist.
In later generations, at least dozens of plants were named after him.
This man is quite remarkable, and he comes from a wealthy and noble family.
What is the purpose of the voyage?
Very scientific: observe the "transit of Venus".
What is a "transit of Venus"?
At some special moments, the Earth, Venus, and the Sun will be in a straight line, and Venus can be seen from the Earth moving slowly on the surface of the Sun like a small black dot, which is called "Venus Transit" in astronomy.
At that time, the estimate was: if you miss this time, the next time will be 120 years later.
Where is the best place to look? In the Pacific region of the Southern Hemisphere.
It is tens of thousands of kilometers away from the UK.
On the day of sailing, the crew, scientists, and naval soldiers were busy, carrying or carrying all kinds of luggage, supplies, and household goods.
But this time, many people brought one more thing: iron nails.
Whether noble or lowly, they all brought large bags of iron nails, bulging bags.
Those scientists with a righteous face brought even more than sailors.
According to the private accounts of those who later participated in the voyage, only Captain Cook did not have a large bag, and like the others, he carried a lot of iron nails. Of course, Captain Cook himself has a record, but in the record he basically only talks about business, using the same serious tone as the scientists, and rarely appears the word "iron nail".
In the British Navy, the captain was said to be known for his rigor.
He did a very good job in surveying and mapping, and the mapping map of Newfoundland, Canada, which he left behind, was definitely the most perfect map that could be drawn in that era, extremely accurate.
When they saw that he was not carrying iron nails, everyone, including the scientists, gasped.
Captain Cook was expressionless, and led the scientists and officers to a small corner of the lower cabin, which was already stuffed to the brim: not only nails, but also iron tools such as daggers and swords, but they were relatively poorly made and could not be sold very well in England.
Everyone immediately showed an expression of "Big Brother is really an expert".
At that time, the boats were made of wood, and it was normal to carry nails when sailing was risky, but the nails used in a voyage were limited, and it was not to the point that everyone had to carry them.
Why?
It all started with another British ship.
The name was "Dolphin" and the captain was Samuel Warris.
Two years before Endeavour's voyage, the crew of the Dolphin had an adventure that they would never forget in their lifetimes.
It is recorded that the ship departed from England in December 1766 and then crossed the Atlantic, rounding Cape Horn, the tip of South America, and entering the Pacific Ocean.
After sailing for about 7 months, in the early hours of the morning, the crew of the "Dolphin" saw a piece of land with mountains on it. By dawn, they found more than 150 canoes heading towards the boat.
At first, it was a little unpleasant.
The Dolphin "feared that the people in these canoes would be bad for the boat, and fired at them, destroying some of the boats and killing some people." However, soon everyone reconciled. As a gesture of friendship, the crew sent some gifts to the natives of the island, such as earrings, glass beads, etc., which were not rich in Britain at that time, and most of the crew members were from poor backgrounds, and things were worthless, such as earrings, which were made of iron.
The next day, a miracle happened.
The Dolphin "was suddenly surrounded by thousands of natives in canoes.
Countless young women, naked, and the loincloth that they usually use to wrap themselves has also been taken off by the men and old women around them. These indigenous women constantly seduced the crew.
The British have always been hypocritical, and what happened next was not elaborated on by Samuel Wallis later. He only said vaguely that in the days that followed, he found that there were fewer and fewer spare nails on board.
The people on the island did not know how to smelt iron, and in their eyes, iron nails were very precious things, probably the same as the British felt when they saw **.
Samuel Warris was very pointed, and everybody knew that.
But there is a dark place in the British character, and there are some things that they can forget if they keep their mouths shut, but they are willing to reveal a little bit to seduce others.
Samuel Warris flickered in words, mentioning the detail that he feared that the crew might be sick in connection with something unspeakable, and the ship's doctor assured him that everyone was in good health.
It's kind of a cover-up.
Samuel Wallis also said that a month later, he had to give the order to sail away, although everyone was unwilling.
Why? Because the spare nails are gone.
The crew has already begun to twist nails from the hull, and the "Dolphin" is likely to be dismantled. If they stay for a few more days, they may be on the island forever.
Although everything is said vaguely.
Samuel Wallis still mentions a woman's name: Prea.
It was the queen of the island, Samuel Warris said that the crew attended a banquet at her home, and she, together with the ministers, went to visit the Dolphin, and the visit was a success, and both sides exchanged gifts.
It looks a lot like regular diplomacy.
But the rest of the crew said that Prea was charming and amorous, and that almost everyone on the ship had a good time with her, and anyway, when the "Dolphin" had to leave, she stood on the shore and cried loudly, and all the crew members felt the pain of falling out of love, a bit like a daughter country.
This island is now called Tahiti, and the area around Hong Kong and Taiwan is called Tahiti.
After returning to England, the story of his encounter with human flesh and iron nails in Tahiti quietly spread among the upper echelons, but people will be skeptical.
But the scientists of the Royal Society were very interested in it.
Think white sandy beaches, crystal clear waters, and thousands of unspeakable ......It made a lot of people excited at that time. Especially at that time, the religious forces were still very strong, and everyone lived a relatively depressed life.
And that Joseph Banks, he was of aristocratic origin, rich and free, in addition to being a botanist, he also had a title, **
The Royal Society Club held a weekly meeting to prepare for Tahiti, and it was decided at the dinner on January 7, 1768.
The reason is that on June 3, 1769, there will be a "transit of Venus", so we have to go to the South Pacific Ocean to observe it on the spot. As for the observation point, Banks has already chosen, Tahiti.
The voyage was smooth.
Endeavour sailed west from the United Kingdom, across the Atlantic, and then south along the South American coast of Brazil, through the Strait of Magellan, the southernmost point in South America, and into the South Pacific.
After an eight-month voyage, Endeavour arrived in Tahiti in April 1769, more than two months before the transit of Venus.
What happened afterwards, Captain Cook, maintaining the usual British hypocrisy, said almost nothing, except for one collision, the local women had contracted an illness associated with the unspeakable, and gave it a name, which translates to "English disease".
Captain Cook was furious, believing that the disease was contracted by the French and had nothing to do with the British. This matter is at stake for the honour of Britain, and he focuses on it in order to set the record straight.
Why?
Because a few months after the departure of the "Dolphin", a French ship named "The Gambler" also arrived in Tahiti. The captain's name was Louis Anthony de Bougainville, so just remember that his name was Bougainville.
Because of this voyage, many places in the South Pacific are named after him.
The king of France at that time was Louis XV, that is, Louis XVI's grandfather who was beheaded off in the French Revolution, Louis XVI was also the crown prince of Louis XV, who died too early and was succeeded by his grandson.
Louis XV was in a certain respect, and Bougainville did what he liked, and quietly wrote him a letter about their experience when they sailed to Tahiti, first of all, before they had reached the shore, they encountered a large array of human flesh from the island's maidens, "The canoe was full of women, and their faces were no less beautiful than those of European women, and their plump and beautiful bodies were unmatched by European women."
Bougainville also said that there was a cook on the boat who couldn't stand it, jumped off the boat, and was stripped naked in an instant, and when he thought he was going to die, the natives pushed a whole bunch of naked girls over.
However, in a letter to the King of France, Bougainville rightly stated that the cook had done nothing, for he was almost frightened to death, and had no interest in it.
If they really didn't do anything, the disease came from **, and it would be inexplicable.
However, among this group of people, there is a big mouth, the lead scientist Banksy of this event.
He triumphantly said that the Queen of Tahiti, the Prea who had some kind of indescribable familiarity with almost all the crew members of the "Dolphin", and who made everyone feel the pain of broken love when they said goodbye, was very familiar with him.
Having said so much, as mentioned earlier, the reason for their voyage this time was to observe the "transit of Venus", and they did not hesitate to send a ship, and the military also sent captains and soldiers to drift at sea for 8 months, so how did they observe it after 2 months?
Actually, I didn't observe it much.
Later, it was recalled that they had made an observation point, but when the "transit of Venus" happened, they were attending a banquet of the Queen, and there were a lot of beautiful girls around, and no one was free, so they looked at it in confusion and then continued to be happy.
Afterwards, Banks' team made a report on the "transit of Venus", which was only more than 800 words, including a large section of the environmental description that was really valuable, and it was just over 100 words.
This expensive observation was just hasty.
Later, after the incident came, until now, there are still many people who scold Banks for being "**."
By the way, this Banksy, who later served as president of the Royal Society for a long time.
At this point, some people may think: I'm talking about a romantic story on a distant island.
Not really. It has a profound impact on our lives.
Think about it, when we think of the beach, what comes to mind?
White sandy beaches, crystal clear waters, and bikini girls ......It is full of an atmosphere that is romantic at best and ambiguous at tacky.
These concepts, in fact, are quite modern.
People before didn't think so.
Both Westerners and Orientals don't pay much attention to the beaches of tropical islands.
Westerners have a low culture and don't talk much about it.
The ancient Chinese culture is a little higher, and they talk about it a little bit, see what they said about the beach at that time.
The Song Dynasty poet Yang Wanli has a poem "Coastal Sand", which means that he does not want to walk on the beach by the sea, the wind rises and the sand blows, the eyes cannot be opened, the shoes are easy to sink into, and the sand is also very uncomfortable when the shoes are grinding. It's really boring to walk on the beach road, and it's better to go to a place where there is no sand and let the stones scratch your feet, or on the yellow mud road, and let the muddy water splash all over your body, rather than go to the beach.
Having said that, the adventures of these three ships in Tahiti, the human flesh array encountered by the crew, were later interpreted by countless people, on the **, on the movie, and adapted, becoming a familiar memory for Westerners.
At the ends of the earth, there is always a mysterious island with countless beautiful girls who will flock to it.
Later, after the transportation was convenient, this kind of tropical ocean beach tourism became popular, and this consumption habit spread to the world.
The source of island tourism is the adventure of these three ships in Tahiti.
Later, as people continued to deduce, a new business model was opened.
Can't think of it, right? That's how many things in the world start with the grotesque.
Tomorrow I will continue to talk about the relationship between Captain Cook's voyage and the Australian Prime Minister's embarrassing search for his ancestors, and why the British revealed that his fifth-generation grandmother went to Australia on the "Second Fleet", why it was a very harsh ridicule for him.
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