On the World’s Seas and Oceans - The Wise World Traveler: Becoming a Part of All that You Meet - page 38

Officer.” After Cook, lamented another obituary, there would be nothing to discover in the
vast Pacific. A present-day sailor, Tony Horwitz, who traveled across the Pacific seeking
to follow the routes of Cook's three voyages, pays him an insightful tribute:
If there was an overriding message in his journals it was that people, the world over,
were alike in their essential nature—even if they ate their enemies, made love in pub-
lic, worshiped idols, or like the Aborigines, cared not for material goods. No matter
how strange another society might at first appear, there were almost always grounds
for mutual understanding and respect. This was a radical notion in eighteenth-century
Europe. [36]
And still another tribute to Cook is Australia. Its first settlers arrived in 1788, follow-
ing Cook's discovery of the splendid harbor in modern-day Sydney. [37]