You can't help wondering if the first scene shows a welcome or the opposite. Rather than dinner guests, it wasn't unusual for Fijians to regard foreigners as their dinner. The discovery actually occurred while the HMS Pandora was on a voyage in 1791 to find the HMS Bounty which had experienced the well-known mutiny two years before and hunt down the crew. Pandora was wrecked on Great Barrier Reef at the end of August 1791. wikipedia article
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| a model of the Pandora - details |
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