Captain James Cook on the purchase of a human head

“Saturday, 20th [January 1770. in Queen Charlotte's Sound, New Zealand]. Winds Southerly and fair, pleasant weather. Employ’d wooding, Watering, etc., and in the A.M. sent part of the Powder ashore to be Air’d. Some of the Natives brought alongside in one of their Canoes 4 of the heads of the Men they had lately kill’d; [...] http://bit.ly/7qjqZk