An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands
ACCOUNT
OF THE
TONGA ISLANDS.
Mr. Mariner in the Costume of the Tonga Islands.
London Published Feby, 2, 1818, by J. Murray, Albemarle Street.
AN ACCOUNT
OF
THE NATIVES
OF THE
TONGA ISLANDS,
IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN.
WITH
AN ORIGINAL GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY
OF
THEIR LANGUAGE.
COMPILED AND ARRANGED FROM THE EXTENSIVE COMMUNICATIONS OF
MR. WILLIAM MARINER,
SEVERAL YEARS RESIDENT IN THOSE ISLANDS.
BY JOHN MARTIN, M. D.
"The savages of America inspire less interest . . . . since celebrated navigators
have made known to us the inhabitants of the islands of the South Sea . . . . The
state of half-civilization in which those islanders are found gives a peculiar
charm to the description of their manners . . . . Such pictures, no doubt, have
more attraction than those which pourtray the solemn gravity of the inhabitant
of the banks of the Missouri or the Maranon."
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
SECOND EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.
1818.
TO
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
SIR JOSEPH BANKS, BART.G.C.B.
PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY
&c. &c. &c.
THE FOLLOWING ACCOUNT
OF THE
NATIVES OF THE TONGA ISLANDS,
IN WHICH IT IS ATTEMPTED PARTICULARLY TO SET FORTH
THEIR MANNERS, CUSTOMS, RELIGION,
AND LANGUAGE,
FROM THE ORAL DESCRIPTIONS OF AN ENGLISHMAN
LONG RESIDENT THERE,
IS MOST WILLINGLY INSCRIBED
AS A SMALL, YET APPROPRIATE TRIBUTE
OF RESPECT,
BY
HIS VERY OBEDIENT AND
DEVOTED HUMBLE SERVANT,
JOHN MARTIN.
CONTENTS
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This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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