An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean: With an Original Grammar and Vocabulary of Their Language, Bind 1Author, and sold, 1817 - 212 sider |
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Side vi
... circumstances which first gave rise to it , and the authority under which it has been conducted . In the year 1811 I accidentally heard that Mr. William Mariner , the bearer of a letter from the East Indies to one of my connections in ...
... circumstances which first gave rise to it , and the authority under which it has been conducted . In the year 1811 I accidentally heard that Mr. William Mariner , the bearer of a letter from the East Indies to one of my connections in ...
Side vii
... circumstances of the natives , that he evinced no disposition to over- rate or to embellish what to him was nei ther strange nor new . To my inquiries respecting his intentions of publishing , he replied , that having necessarily been ...
... circumstances of the natives , that he evinced no disposition to over- rate or to embellish what to him was nei ther strange nor new . To my inquiries respecting his intentions of publishing , he replied , that having necessarily been ...
Side viii
... circumstances called him away to the West Indies : on his return he brought me memoranda of the principal events at the Tonga islands , in the order in which they had happened during his residence there , together with a description of ...
... circumstances called him away to the West Indies : on his return he brought me memoranda of the principal events at the Tonga islands , in the order in which they had happened during his residence there , together with a description of ...
Side ix
... In regard to arrangement : in the first place is related an account of the voyage of the Port au Prince , it being esteemed sufficiently interesting by involving a com bination of untoward circumstances INTRODUCTION . ix.
... In regard to arrangement : in the first place is related an account of the voyage of the Port au Prince , it being esteemed sufficiently interesting by involving a com bination of untoward circumstances INTRODUCTION . ix.
Side x
... circumstances that led ultimately to the destruction of the ship : the whole of this has been faithfully composed from a journal kept by Mr. Mariner on board . Next follows a narra- tive , or rather , as it may be termed , an historical ...
... circumstances that led ultimately to the destruction of the ship : the whole of this has been faithfully composed from a journal kept by Mr. Mariner on board . Next follows a narra- tive , or rather , as it may be termed , an historical ...
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