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Zf Happened To-day. DISCOVERY OF HAWAII One hundred and fifty-seven years ago to-day. Captain James Cook, while on his third voyage of discovery, sighted the Hawaiian Islands. He called them the Sandwich Islands, after the Earl of Sandwich who was First Lord of the Admiralty at the time. “We were agreeably surprised,” wrote Cook in his diary, “to find that the natives spoke the language of Otaheite, and of the other islands we had lately visited. These people were of a brown colour, and though of the common size, were stoutly made. . . . The very instant I leaped on shore the collected body of natives all fell flat upon their faces, and remained in that very humble posture till, by expressive signs, I prevailed upon them to rise. . . . We saw five Islands whose names as given to us by the natives are Woliaoo. Atooi. Oneeheow, Oreehoea and Tahoora.” On February U, 1779, Captain Cook again visited the islands and was killed by the natives under tragic circumstances.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 94, 15 January 1935, Page 7
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169A READER’S MEDLEY Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 94, 15 January 1935, Page 7
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