"The savages of America inspire less interest ....since celebrated navigators have IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. PROPERTY P LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, AND SOLD BY JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET. 1817. DU 880 M33 1065162 ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR JOSEPH BANKS, BART. K. B. &c. &c. THE FOLLOWING ACCOUNT OF THE PEOPLE OF THE TONGA ISLANDS, WHOM HE FORMERLY VISITED, IN COMPANY WITH THE MUCH LAMENTED CAPTAIN COOK, 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. |