Wynee

thumb|Engraving of Wynee, a Native of Owyhee, one of the Sandwich Islands by a member of John Meares's crew thumb|Engraving of Tianna, a Prince of Atooi, who traveled with Wynee during the last leg of her journey home and was beside her at her death Wynee, also spelled Winee or Winée, was the first Native Hawaiian from the Hawaiian Islands to travel abroad on a Western ship. She traveled to British Columbia and China before dying on the voyage home to Hawaii.

==Biography== Wynee was originally from the island of Hawaii, known as Owyhee by European explorers at the time. In 1787, she became the first Native Hawaiian to sail abroad with a Western ship when she was hired as the servant or maid of Frances Hornsby Trevor Barkley, the wife of Captain Charles William Barkley, on the British ship Imperial Eagle. Barkley recorded her name as Wynee which was possibly an attempted spelling of wahine, the Hawaiian word for woman. She traveled to the Pacific Northwest and later to China.