Steel-string guitars also arrived with the Portuguese in the 1860s and slack-key had spread across the chain by the late 1880s. A ship called the "Ravenscrag" arrived in Honolulu on August 23, 1879, bringing Portuguese field workers from Madeira. Legend has it that one of the men, João Fernandes, later a popular musician, tried to impress the Hawaiians by playing folk music with a friend's braguinha; it is also said that the Hawaiians called the instrument "`ukulele" ("jumping flea") in reference to the man's swift fingers. Others have claimed the word means "gift that came here" or a corruption of "ukeke lele" ("dancing ukeke", a three-string bow).