There is no record of how or when pineapples arrived in Hawaii, with some accounts of pineapples being washed ashore from a Spanish or Portuguese shipwreck or brought ashore by sailors.[2] The fruit may have arrived with the Spanish years before the arrival of Captain James Cook in 1778,[3] but another source states the first pineapple was planted by Don Francisco de Paula Marin.[4] While Marin was a horticulturalist who introduced many new plants to Hawaii, he may not have been the first person to introduce pineapples to Hawaii, but did describe pineapple planting in his journals in 1813.[5]