02-12-2016, 06:06 AM
There is a great documentary out there about how Cook was pretty much going off the rails on his last voyage. He had previously had a track record of being fairly enlightened in his dealings with the people and cultures he encountered on his voyages, as well as how he treated his men, for a man of his era. But that last voyage there is a lot of documentation about how erratic and paranoid he had gotten, both with the "native" he encountered and his men.