Here I am standing outside Captain Cook's Cottage. The last time I was here was in the late fifties. I was less than ten years of age then but the image of the cottage has remained stuck in my mind all that time. The outside of the cottage is just as I remember it but I don't think that I'd ventured inside at that time.
I was amazed to learn that Captain Cook stood six foot three inches in his socks. He would have been a giant in his day!
His height endeared him to the natives of Hawaii and was to lead to his inadvertent and untimely death.
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