And historian K. R. Howe believes that the women Bougainville’s men had encountered were likely “ordered to prostitute themselves ” so as to put the invaders at ease.
Vēsturnieks Kerijs Hovs uzskata, ka sievietēm, ko sastapa Bugenvila jūrnieki, visticamāk, bija pavēlēts piedāvāt sevi atbraucējiem, lai noskaņotu tos miermīlīgi.