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 iii
... 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 . INTRODUCTION . THE cluster of islands in the South Pa-
... 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 . INTRODUCTION . THE cluster of islands in the South Pa-
Side vii
... respecting the people with whom he had been so long and so inti- mately associated was very far superior to , and much more extensive than any thing that had yet appeared before the public . His answers to several inquiries , in regard ...
... respecting the people with whom he had been so long and so inti- mately associated was very far superior to , and much more extensive than any thing that had yet appeared before the public . His answers to several inquiries , in regard ...
Side xiii
... respecting the manners , cus- toms , and sentiments of any portion of the human species , cannot but be considered , in these enlightened days , at least a lauda- ble undertaking ; but to bestow much time and pains INTRODUCTION . xiii.
... respecting the manners , cus- toms , and sentiments of any portion of the human species , cannot but be considered , in these enlightened days , at least a lauda- ble undertaking ; but to bestow much time and pains INTRODUCTION . xiii.
Side xvi
... respect to the metaphysi- cian , he will not be displeased if we offer to his notice the structure of a language which has advanced in its progress up to the present time , among a people who have no conception of any method of noting ...
... respect to the metaphysi- cian , he will not be displeased if we offer to his notice the structure of a language which has advanced in its progress up to the present time , among a people who have no conception of any method of noting ...
Side xvii
... white people : they had thought that the latter came to live among them merely from choice , as liking the climate better than their own . VOL . I. b all that he had learnt in this respect from sinking INTRODUCTION . xvii.
... white people : they had thought that the latter came to live among them merely from choice , as liking the climate better than their own . VOL . I. b all that he had learnt in this respect from sinking INTRODUCTION . xvii.
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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