Terreeoboo, King of O'Whyee, bringing presents to Captain Cook'. Terreeoboo and his party travelling by catamaran with 10 men on each side propelling it with paddles. James Cook (1728-1779) British navigator, explorer and cartographer in 1778, on his third and last voyage, was the first European to visit the Hawaiian Islands which he named the Sandwich Islands. Engraving from New System of Geography by Thomas Bankes (London, c1785).