Upon arrival, he found that Tahiti was not as he imagined it: it had been colonised in the 18th century, and at least two-thirds of the indigenous people of the island had been killed by diseases brought by Europeans.
Odmah po dolasku pronašao je kako Tahiti nije onakav kakvim ga je zamišljao; koloniziran još od 18. stoljeća s dvije trećine Tahićana umorenima europskim bolestima.