Rarotonga

Modern DNA indicates that voyagers left Samoa and went south and then east, reaching Rarotonga in the Cook Islands by around the year 830.

The saga is told at Rarotonga of a girl of dazzling white complexion who came up out of a fountain and was caught.

Rarotonga was, in fact, discovered by the ship Seringapatam in 1814, though Williams may have been the first to land.

The little Kingdom of Rarotonga is one of the last to remain independent.

She was built in Rarotonga, for the most part by natives who had never handled tools before.

Cook had probably brought it from Rarotonga, or from Tahiti.