Sometimes, at rare intervals, she had been known to allow the coffee for dinner or supper to be made by the cook in the kitchen.

To have permitted the cook to make the morning coffee in the kitchen, would have been in Miss Penelope's eyes, to relegate a sacred rite to profane hands in an unconsecrated place.

Then the present Hawaiians were isolated and forgotten for twenty-one generations until rediscovery by Captain Cook in 1778.

"What land is this?" asked Cook, and understanding him, the Tahitians answered, "Otaiti oia" or, "This is Tahiti.

" Cook put it down as Otaheite, pronounced by him Otahytee.

It was Cook's carpenter who was building a house for a chief, a friend of Cook's, and lost all his tools during the visit of the high priest of the god Hiro and his acolytes.

When Cook sailed away, the tools were taken to the marae, or temple of Hiro, where the priest said he would cause the prized tools to reproduce their kind, like fruit.

The whites killed scores for these crimes, one of the initial murders of Cook's crew being the shooting of Chief Kapupuu as he departed in his canoe from their ship with some bits of metal he had taken.

And Lono [Captain Cook] slept with that woman, and the Kauai women prostituted themselves to the foreigners for iron.

Yet while the Arioi had existed as far back as their legends ran, Captain Cook, as said Tetuanui, estimated the Tahitians to number seventy thousand in 1769.

Reading one day from Captain Cook's Voyages about a heathen temple not far from Mataiea which Cook had visited, I suggested to Brooke that we go to it.

Cook had had a sincere friendship, if not a sweeter sentiment, for Oberea, the high chiefess of the clan of Tevas at Papara, and whom at first he thought queen of Tahiti.

It was exactly suited for sleeping and lounging purposes, and the chief said that I could cook in a convenient hut.

My life at TautiraThe way I cook my foodAncient Tahitian sportsSwimming and fishingA night hunt for shrimp and eels.

Captain Cook said that in their houses he had not seen a single instance of immodesty, though families slept in one room.

The Bay of Tautira is marked on the French map, "Mouillage de Cook," the anchorage of Cook.

At night Cook's ships approached Oati-piha, or Ohetepeha, Bay, as his log-writers termed this lagoon, from the Vaitapiha River, flowing into it, and the dawn found them in a calm a mile and a half from the reef.

From my cook-house I saw where they had struggled for their lives with breaker, current, and chartless bottom.

" Cook, on his third voyage to Tahiti, found here a large wooden cross on which was inscribed in Latin: Christ conquered Charles the Third Emperor 1774

The king first used it in his cook-house as a shelf, and finally for firewood.

When you have a lot of ti at Sawau, we will go to cook it, and will appear safe and sound.

There are here five glass houses, two of which belong to Messrs. T. and G. Hawkes, where the most superb articles are manufactured; another to Mr. John Roughton; a fourth to Price, Cook, Wood, and Co.; and the fifth is at Holly-hall, belonging to Zephaniah Parkes and Co.

" "It's just over this next hill, and they got circus wagons and a fire where they cook their dinners, right outdoors, and fighting roosters, and tell your fortune.

"It sounds funny, but Mr. Dill bought father out to get a cook.

While waiting for the turkey to cook, I went into the woods gunningit would amuse me, and wouldn't hurt the game, for I couldn't hit the broadside of a barn at ten paces.