Tobias Furneaux
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Captain Tobias Furneaux was a British navigator and Royal Navy officer, who accompanied James Cook on his second voyage of exploration. He was one of the first men to circumnavigate the world in both
Tobias Furneaux by James Northcote
Mai (Ra'iatean man)
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Mai, also known as Omai in European countries, was a young Ra'iatean man who became the first Pacific Islander to visit Great Britain, and the second to visit European countries, after Ahutoru, who wa
Tobias Furneaux
…to Portsmouth in July 1774. The lurid story of cannibalism in New Zealand caused a sensation in the British press. Furneaux also brought back with him Omai of Ulaietea (Raiatea), a South Sea Islander. Omai was the first Pacific Islander to travel to Great Britain and later returned to Tahiti with Cook on…
Portrait of Omai, a South Sea Islander who travelled to Great Britain with the second expedition of Captain Cook – Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1776
Omai of the Friendly Isles by Sir Joshua Reynolds, c.1774
William Parry's painting Sir Joseph Banks with Omai and Dr Daniel Solander, circa 1775–76