The price for sex with the Māori women was the same, Captain Cook noticed, as it had been for women in Hawaii and in Bora Bora and Tahiti and Easter Island: one iron carpenter’s nail per union. Captain Cook had threatened to shackle his crew, Bruno wrote, in order to stop his men from prying all the nails out of the Endeavour, reducing their own vessel to scrap in order to pay for love.
