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 xxxv
... spears are darted at him : he must catch the first with his hand , and with it ward off the other two . This is not a mere formality . The spear is thrown with the utmost force ; and should the king lose his life there is no help for it ...
... spears are darted at him : he must catch the first with his hand , and with it ward off the other two . This is not a mere formality . The spear is thrown with the utmost force ; and should the king lose his life there is no help for it ...
Side xxxvi
... spear , his tu- telar god would catch it or turn it aside , rather than allow him to be hurt . 2 P. 185. The author here speaks of the use of Ava , ( or as the Tonga people call it , Cava ) , which he never saw employed but as a ...
... spear , his tu- telar god would catch it or turn it aside , rather than allow him to be hurt . 2 P. 185. The author here speaks of the use of Ava , ( or as the Tonga people call it , Cava ) , which he never saw employed but as a ...
Side lviii
... spears- Manufacture of gnatoo , and mode of printing it — Making mats , baskets , combs , thread , & c . 274 CHAP . XXIII . - General habits of chiefs , matabooles , mooas , women , and children - Quotation from Cook's Voyages ...
... spears- Manufacture of gnatoo , and mode of printing it — Making mats , baskets , combs , thread , & c . 274 CHAP . XXIII . - General habits of chiefs , matabooles , mooas , women , and children - Quotation from Cook's Voyages ...
Side 44
... spears , and whose behaviour gave ample grounds to suspect that they intended to take the vessel . This was indeed their intention , having already digested their plan , which Mr. Mariner afterwards learned from a young chief named Vaca ...
... spears , and whose behaviour gave ample grounds to suspect that they intended to take the vessel . This was indeed their intention , having already digested their plan , which Mr. Mariner afterwards learned from a young chief named Vaca ...
Side 45
... spears , they pretended to interest them- selves very much in throwing their arms over- board , and in ordering the natives out of the ship . Mr. Mariner , in the mean while , noticed that they took great care not to throw the best and ...
... spears , they pretended to interest them- selves very much in throwing their arms over- board , and in ordering the natives out of the ship . Mr. Mariner , in the mean while , noticed that they took great care not to throw the best and ...
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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