An Account of Traditional Tahitian Navigation: from The Quest and Occupation of Tahiti by Emissaries of Spain during the Years 1772-6 (London: Hakluyt Society, 1913-1919 Vol. II., 284-287). The account is from the journal of Andia y Varela, who visited Tahiti in 1774.
"Hawaiians as Navigators and Seaman": by Samuel Wilder King, published in the 34th Annual Report of the Hawaiian Historical Society, 1925, 11-14.