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Cook subsequently landed. They came in a painted 
boat, with an awning or canopy over the stern, but 
without mast or sails. They were all dressed; the 
colour of their clothes was white or yellow, and one of 
them wore a pahi, long knife, the name by which they 
still call a sword, at his side, and had a feather in his 
hat. The natives received them kindly. They married 
native women, were made chiefs, proved themselves 
warriors, and ultimately became very powerful in the 
island of Hawaii, which, it is said, was for some time 
governed by them. 
There are in the Sandwich Islands a number of per¬ 
sons distinguished by a lighter colour in their skin, and 
corresponding brown curly hair, called ehu, who are, by 
all the natives of the islands, considered as the descen¬ 
dants of these foreigners, who acknowledge themselves 
to be such, and esteem their origin by no means dis¬ 
honourable. 
Another party is said to have afterwards arrived at 
the same place, but the accounts the natives give of 
their landing are not very distinct; and we feel unde¬ 
cided whether there were two distinct parties, or only 
two different accounts of the same event. 
In addition to these, they have a tradition of some 
white men, called Kea, who lived wild in the mountains, 
occasionally coming down to the streams, or towards 
the sea-shore, in an evening, much to the terror of the 
natives, particularly the females. 
We have heard from one of the chiefs of Hawaii, that 
there is a tradition, of a ship having touched at the 
island of Maui prior to the arrival of Captain Cook; 
but, with the exception of this chief, all the natives we 
have conversed with on the subject, and we have con 
