 But what Captain Cook is starting to realize by the time he gets to Kauai is that there has been this enormous spread of Polynesian civilization all over the Pacific Ocean, the Polynesian diaspora. He has been to Easter Island. He has been to New Zealand. He has been to Tonga and the Cook Islands. He's been to Tahiti. Now he's all the way up in Hawaii, and they're all speaking more or less the same language.