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MR MARINER in the CoSTIME of the TONGA ISLANDS.

London Published May 8th 1816 by Murray Albemarle Street.

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"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."
Preface to Humboldt's Personal Narrative.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR,

AND SOLD BY JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.

1817.

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