Crow
Silver Member
- Joined
- Jan 28, 2005
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- Location
- In a tax haven some where
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- ONES THAT GO BEEP! :-)
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- Other
I have a lot of respect for Cook islanders. By enlarge they are a very happy go lucky people. Not to say you meet the occasional Ahole but you get them everywhere. The islanders on the islands are little different from each other as some are more reserved. Some are more friendly than others. On a whole I got on good with them because I treat every the same. There island was an escape from those restless souls escaping the confines of 19 century society.
In the 19th century, a beachcomber was a transient figure, often a shipwrecked sailor, escaped convict, or deserting seaman, who lived in the Pacific Islands, integrating into local communities as a castaway or temporary resident. While sometimes seen as degenerate, they served practical roles, offering skills like carpentry, blacksmithing, and piloting, and also acting as cultural intermediaries and even combatants, contributing to the transition from indigenous island societies to colonial rule. Some had been privateers in the war in Peru and Mexico and fled with ill gotten gains discovering gold a jewels was useless on these island hatches fire arm and iron was more valuable than gold.
These buried banks of treasure was an insurance policy for men some money if they ever want to return to mainstream civilization. Most of them could not return to the society they had left. Because the island gave people some thing more precious than gold. Freedom.
Crow
In the 19th century, a beachcomber was a transient figure, often a shipwrecked sailor, escaped convict, or deserting seaman, who lived in the Pacific Islands, integrating into local communities as a castaway or temporary resident. While sometimes seen as degenerate, they served practical roles, offering skills like carpentry, blacksmithing, and piloting, and also acting as cultural intermediaries and even combatants, contributing to the transition from indigenous island societies to colonial rule. Some had been privateers in the war in Peru and Mexico and fled with ill gotten gains discovering gold a jewels was useless on these island hatches fire arm and iron was more valuable than gold.
These buried banks of treasure was an insurance policy for men some money if they ever want to return to mainstream civilization. Most of them could not return to the society they had left. Because the island gave people some thing more precious than gold. Freedom.
Crow
