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 xvii
... leave to observe that it is not every European , whom accident or design may station in those islands for a few years , that can learn their language with accu- racy ; for the idiom is so different from our civilized and more artificial ...
... leave to observe that it is not every European , whom accident or design may station in those islands for a few years , that can learn their language with accu- racy ; for the idiom is so different from our civilized and more artificial ...
Side xx
... leave of William's father ; after din- ner , the conversation naturally turned upon the ensuing voyage , when Captain Duck , who was a man of very sanguine expecta- * Late of Burr Street , Aldgate . + Of nearly 500 tons , 96 men , and ...
... leave of William's father ; after din- ner , the conversation naturally turned upon the ensuing voyage , when Captain Duck , who was a man of very sanguine expecta- * Late of Burr Street , Aldgate . + Of nearly 500 tons , 96 men , and ...
Side xlii
... leave to state , that the following pages were not written in the order they were destined to assume , but at very uncertain and irregular periods , as the result of va- rious conversations ; that sometimes the vocabulary , at other ...
... leave to state , that the following pages were not written in the order they were destined to assume , but at very uncertain and irregular periods , as the result of va- rious conversations ; that sometimes the vocabulary , at other ...
Side xlvii
... leaving the fortress in the care of the chief of Bea- Treachery of this chief - Return of the fleet to the Hapai Islands Astonishment of Finow at the mode of commu- nicating sentiments by writing , with the circumstanee that gave rise ...
... leaving the fortress in the care of the chief of Bea- Treachery of this chief - Return of the fleet to the Hapai Islands Astonishment of Finow at the mode of commu- nicating sentiments by writing , with the circumstanee that gave rise ...
Side lv
... leave of the king - The ship sails for the Hapai islands - Five more Englishmen taken on board — The ship sails for the Fiji islands - Her departure for China . Page 1 CHAP . XVI . Preliminary remarks - Anecdote of the late king ...
... leave of the king - The ship sails for the Hapai islands - Five more Englishmen taken on board — The ship sails for the Fiji islands - Her departure for China . Page 1 CHAP . XVI . Preliminary remarks - Anecdote of the late king ...
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accordingly afterwards anchor appeared armed arrived bales of gnatoo bird boat body Bolotoo brought Captain Captain Cook carronades ceremony chiefs and matabooles circumstance club cocoa-nut consecrated Cow Mooala death enemy feet Felletoa fencing Fiji islands Filimóëátoo Finow fono fortress four fytoca garrison gave gods grave ground guns Haano Hamoa hand Hapai islands head hogs immediately island of Tonga killed king king of Tonga large canoe length lest Mariner Mariner's marly mats mean morning natives Neafoo night Nioocalofa occasion orders Paita party plantains Port au Prince Port Jackson present priest prisoners procured remained respect returned revenge sail sent on shore ship shot side soon spears taboo taken Tarky Teoo Cava thing thought tion Toe Oomoo Tonga islands Toobó Toobo Malohi Toobo Neuha Toobo Toa Toogoo Ahoo Tooi Tooitonga took vessel Voona whaling whilst women yams young chief