How Captain Cook went from being celebrated to slain in Hawaii
Beneath the sprawling gnarled branches of a kiawe tree in Hawaii’s pristine Kealakekua Bay, an X lies carved into an otherwise unassuming rock face. But there’s no buried treasure to be found here. This X marks the spot where Captain James Cook was killed by Kānaka Maoli (native Hawaiians) on Valentine’s Day in 1779. The…