DISCOVERY OF THE ISLANDS BY CAPTAIN COOK 107

Messengers were sent to Oahu and Maui to informthe chiefs there of the arrival of these wonderful beings.The messengers said : “ The men are white; their skin is

loose and folding; their heads are angular; fire andsmoke issue from their mouths; they have openingsin the sides of their bodies into which they thrust theirhands, and draw out iron, heads, nails, and other treas-ures ; and their speech is unintelligible. This is the waythey speak: ‘ a hikapalale, hikapalale, hioluai, oalaki,walawalaki, poha,’ etc.”

Second Visit of Captain Cook . —Having explored thecoast of Alaska , Bering’s Straits, and the Arctic ; Oceanuntil he was stopped by the ice-fields, Captain Cook re-turned to spend the winter in the sunny isles which hehad discovered at the beginning of the year. He ar-rived off the northeast coast of Maui on the 2 6th ofNovember, and beat to windward around the east end ofthe island.

Kalaniopuu, the aged king of Hawaii , was then atWailua in Koolau, engaged in war with Kahekili. At-tended by several of his chiefs, he visited the ships, andhis nephew , Kamehameha , spent the night on board ofthe “Resolution,” returning in his double canoe in themorning.

Captain Cook then approached Kukuipahu in Kohala,where he lay off and on for a time, trading for provisions.When the natives saw the sailors smoking and eatingwatermelons, they exclaimed : “ G-ods indeed ! They eatthe flesh of men, and the fire burns in their mouths ! ”

Captain Cook spent the month of December beatingaround the eastern and southern sides of Hawaii , and

prophecy, and upon his crew as supernatural beings. Others pronounced them tobe foreigners, haoles , from Kahiki or other mysterious lands to the south.