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If their interaction was going to be similar to any other interaction with polynesians from Byron's excursion, it would have involved trading goods for food.

Hey look, if you threaten to kill me, and chase me off before I can ask you what the name of your island is, then on the maps for my own people, I get to name it whatever I want!

Wouldn’t have mattered, anyway. Being a 18th century Brit and thus totally lacking any cultural sensitivities, Byron probably would have named the islands after the King’s favorite fox hunting hound.

Because a ship full of people dying of scurvy can't be 'in need'?