A Sandwich-Islander.
1840. The Catalina had several Kanakas on board, who were immediately besieged by the others, and carried up to the oven, where they had a long pow-wow, and a smoke.—R. H. Dana, Jr., ‘Two Years before the Mast,’ ch. xx. p. 198. (N.E.D.)
1846. The natives of the Sandwich islands (Kanackas, as they are called) are, without doubt, the most expert watermen in the world.—Edwin Bryant, ‘What I saw in California,’ p. 341 (N.Y.).
1857. The Sandwich Islanders, or Kanakas, as they are now familiarly known to the sailors and traders, live very much as they do in their native islands, and have grouped together their palm thatched huts, which have somewhat the appearance of one of their native villages.—R. Tomes, ‘The Americans in Japan,’ p. 140. (N.E.D.)
