"From the time of Captain Cook to the late 1800s, Hawaii was looking at about, 90 to 95% population loss," he says of the native population. "(They) had a number of different epidemics ...

The first encounters between the native peoples ... Sandwich Islands. Captain Cook, Public Arcives of Canada Towards the end of his journeys, just after his discovery of the Hawaiian Islands ...

The area was primarily inhabited by native Hawaiians ... European contact with the Hawaiian Islands had occurred with Captain James Cook’s arrival in 1778, two years after the American ...