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SANDWICH ISLANDS. 
and their boldness when at sea is still their distinguishing 
characteristic. 
Maui, the Island nearest to Hawaii, and second to it in 
importance, was, at the discovery, claimed by Tereeoboo or 
Teraiopu, as the rightful heritage of his daughter-in-law 
Roaho, the only child of Maihamaiha, the last king of 
Maui, whose widow Teraiopu had married, and, to 
strengthen his interest in the claim, his son Teewairoo was 
married to Roaho. But Taheetaree, the brother of Maiha¬ 
maiha, resisted this claim, and many of the chiefs of Maui 
supported him, unwilling to submit to the lord of another 
Island *. Oahu, Tauai, and Oneheow were governed by the 
chief Perreeoranee and his grandsons. 
On the first appearance of the English ships off Tauai, 
the chiefs and priests, taking them for floating islands, 
imagined that their long-expected Etuah Orono was arrived. 
Hence, even at that Island, though it was not Orono’s 
country, Captain Cook was received with honours approach- 
rently from the N. W. coast of America. The great double canoe of Teraiopu 
was of two fine pine sticks that had been drifted to the Islands. The curious 
helmet or mask made of the calebash, noticed by Captain Cook, worn by the 
rowers in some of the large canoes, was probably a defence against the stones of 
the slingers, when rowing near the shore, to convey to a hostile Island the warriors 
of their own. 
* The first king of Maui, whose name Captain King was able to learn, 
was Mokoakea; he was succeeded by Papikaneeou, Ivaowreeka, and Maiha¬ 
maiha, who had died before Captain Cook’s voyage. 
