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 viii
... mean while 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 ...
... mean while 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 ...
Side x
... mean while , being related according to the ac- count of the principal natives of divers * From the " Transactions of the Missionary Society , " it appears that this event took place in May , 1799 . parties , who had been eye ...
... mean while , being related according to the ac- count of the principal natives of divers * From the " Transactions of the Missionary Society , " it appears that this event took place in May , 1799 . parties , who had been eye ...
Side xii
... means my ear and eye became accustomed to them , and several were stored up in my memory . my memory . In the mean while Mr. Mariner wrote down several dialogues and popular tales in the Tonga language ; and I afterwards exercised my ...
... means my ear and eye became accustomed to them , and several were stored up in my memory . my memory . In the mean while Mr. Mariner wrote down several dialogues and popular tales in the Tonga language ; and I afterwards exercised my ...
Side xvi
... means regret that this subject has been thus far investigated ; I mean those who take a laudable pleasure in looking for- ward to the civilization and religious in- struction of savage nations , to effect which in the most rational ...
... means regret that this subject has been thus far investigated ; I mean those who take a laudable pleasure in looking for- ward to the civilization and religious in- struction of savage nations , to effect which in the most rational ...
Side xvii
... means that lay in my power to prevent that the object of the missionaries had been to instruct them in the religion of the white people : they had thought that the latter came to live among them merely from choice , as liking the ...
... means that lay in my power to prevent that the object of the missionaries had been to instruct them in the religion of the white people : they had thought that the latter came to live among them merely from choice , as liking the ...
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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