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Poor Pussy, Kauai 2007 Cook left no shipboard cats in Hawaii, perhaps because most of them were stolen during a stopover in Tonga, where they were instantly coveted and successfully spirited ashore. Cats were firmly established in the Islands by 1809 when Englishman Archibald Campbell visited and compiled a 400-word vocabulary that included the Hawaiian word for cat, which he spelled “popokee.” The origin of the name in an imitative word from “poor pussy,” po-po-ki.

Poor Pussy, Kauai 2007 
Cook left no shipboard cats in Hawaii, perhaps because most of them were stolen during a stopover in Tonga, where they were instantly coveted and successfully spirited ashore. Cats were firmly established in the Islands by 1809 when Englishman Archibald Campbell visited and compiled a 400-word vocabulary that included the Hawaiian word for cat, which he spelled “popokee.” The origin of the name in an imitative word from “poor pussy,” po-po-ki.