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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... correct and uniform : of this I have had numberless proofs , and one in particu- lar I shall mention . I happened to mislay the English version which he had written out at his leisure , of the speech of Finow INTRODUCTION . xxiii.
... correct and uniform : of this I have had numberless proofs , and one in particu- lar I shall mention . I happened to mislay the English version which he had written out at his leisure , of the speech of Finow INTRODUCTION . xxiii.
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... mentioning , that even when I became first aequainted with him , he was able to read and translate French with considerable ease and fluency , although he had scarcely seen a French book , or spoken French since he had left school , a ...
... mentioning , that even when I became first aequainted with him , he was able to read and translate French with considerable ease and fluency , although he had scarcely seen a French book , or spoken French since he had left school , a ...
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... mentioned work does not contain . I shall mention the different subjects in the order in which they occur in Mr. Campbell's book , paging them acccord- ingly ; and if that author , or his editor , Mr. Smith , sees any thing in Mr ...
... mentioned work does not contain . I shall mention the different subjects in the order in which they occur in Mr. Campbell's book , paging them acccord- ingly ; and if that author , or his editor , Mr. Smith , sees any thing in Mr ...
Side xxxi
... man , viz . Tangata . It is well to mention that Ota- heite is also called by the Tonga people Taheite . P. 156. Boyd , the white resident , no- ticed as being inspector of the native shipwrights , had INTRODUCTION . xxxi.
... man , viz . Tangata . It is well to mention that Ota- heite is also called by the Tonga people Taheite . P. 156. Boyd , the white resident , no- ticed as being inspector of the native shipwrights , had INTRODUCTION . xxxi.
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... mentioned in the second volume of the present work , p . 66 . P. 162. The author here mentions the laborious method of cultivating taro , and states , that even the king sometimes as- sisted in it , but why he could not conjec- ture ...
... mentioned in the second volume of the present work , p . 66 . P. 162. The author here mentions the laborious method of cultivating taro , and states , that even the king sometimes as- sisted in it , but why he could not conjec- ture ...
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