An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean: With an Original Grammar and Vocabulary of Their Language, Bind 2Constable and Company, 1827 - 2 sider |
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Side iv
... wish to go to England - Mr Mariner sends on shore for the journal of the Port au Prince , and procures the escape of two of his countrymen - Further transactions on board - He takes a final leave of the king - The ship sails for the ...
... wish to go to England - Mr Mariner sends on shore for the journal of the Port au Prince , and procures the escape of two of his countrymen - Further transactions on board - He takes a final leave of the king - The ship sails for the ...
Side 17
... wish to be tributary to Vavaoo , notwithstanding it might still be thought politic , as long as any of Toobo Nuha's near relations were living , to keep him and his people at a distance , acknowledging that such a separation was the ...
... wish to be tributary to Vavaoo , notwithstanding it might still be thought politic , as long as any of Toobo Nuha's near relations were living , to keep him and his people at a distance , acknowledging that such a separation was the ...
Side 18
... wishes of so young and inexpe rienced a chief . While yet speaking , the tears ran down his cheeks , influenced probably by the feel- ings of his heart towards the late How , and sincere regret for his loss . The same evening he took ...
... wishes of so young and inexpe rienced a chief . While yet speaking , the tears ran down his cheeks , influenced probably by the feel- ings of his heart towards the late How , and sincere regret for his loss . The same evening he took ...
Side 27
... wishes of the multi- tude , as it relieved them from a very heavy tax , and , in times of scarcity , one extremely oppressive . In regard to the religious objections which one might suppose would be started against this mea- sure , it ...
... wishes of the multi- tude , as it relieved them from a very heavy tax , and , in times of scarcity , one extremely oppressive . In regard to the religious objections which one might suppose would be started against this mea- sure , it ...
Side 30
... wish to live departs also , for then we shall have nothing left worth protecting , and , having no mo- motive to defend ourselves , it matters little how we die . " Finow upon this was obliged to explain to Tongamana the necessity of ...
... wish to live departs also , for then we shall have nothing left worth protecting , and , having no mo- motive to defend ourselves , it matters little how we die . " Finow upon this was obliged to explain to Tongamana the necessity of ...
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angi atoo Bolotoo booaca called canoe captain cava cava party ceremony club Co ho cocoa-nut considered Cook dual expressed fafine female Fiji Islands Finow Finow Fiji fonnooa fucca fytoca giate gimótóloo ginówooa ginówtóloo give gnatoo gods gooa Hala Api Api Hamoa hand Hapai Islands Hihifo honour hotooas inferior king lahi Langi language Licoo lillé loto manatoo manoo-manoo Mariner matabooles mats matta means mohe momoco mooas natives noble nofo noun obito occasion ongofooloo oola Ooloo operation Papalangi performed person plural number Port au Prince present priest pronoun rank respect sometimes superior supposed taboo taha Talo Tangaloa tangata tense teoo thing tion toca togi toloo Tonga Islands Tonga language tooas Toobo Toobó Toa toofoonga Tooitonga tow aloo tree vaca Valoo Vavaoo Veachi verb whilst women word wound yams
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Side 146 - Tonga hold true for a great many, not to say all, savage and barbarous races now existing. " It must not be supposed," he says, "that these women are always easily won; the greatest attentions and most fervent solicitations are sometimes requisite, even though there be no other lover in the way.
Side 158 - ... fingers pointing downwards, and the palm presenting outwards. He does this slowly, from side to side, gradually descending deeper and deeper, till his fingers meet each other at the bottom, so that nearly the whole of the fibres of the root are by these means enclosed in the...
Side 214 - The chorus is composed of ten or twelve of the chiefs or principal matabooles, in the middle of whom sits one who beats time upon a loose flat piece of hard wood, about three feet long, and an inch and a half square, fastened only at one end upon another similar piece: this is struck by two small sticks, one in each hand, and produces a rattling sound.
Side 113 - Hseful things, neither shall you go to the great land of your brothers. How can you go with your bad canoes? But your brothers shall come to Tonga, and trade with you as they please.
Side 129 - He found nothing that he conceived very remarkable in their general character : if there was any difference between them and the rest of the natives, it was that they were rather more given to reflection, and somewhat more taciturn, and probably greater observers of what was going forward.
Side 102 - Bolotoo is supposed to be so far off as to render it dangerous for their canoes to attempt going there ; and it is supposed moreover that even if they were to succeed in reaching so far, unless it happened to be the particular will of the gods, they would be sure to miss it.
Side 159 - ... the left arm, while he takes a new and less constrained hold. Thus the hands and arms perform a variety of curves of the most graceful description : the muscles, both of the arms and chest, are seen rising as they are called into action, displaying what would be a fine and uncommon subject of study for the painter ; for no...
Side 148 - As to domestic quarrels, they are seldom known ; but this must be said to happen rather from the absolute power which every man holds in his own family : for even if his wife be of superior rank, he is nevertheless of higher authority in all domestic matters, and no woman entertains the least idea of rebelling against that authority...
Side 159 - ... hands being upwards), and raising it breast high with his arms considerably extended, he brings his right hand towards his breast, moving it gradually onwards ; and whilst his left hand is coming round towards his right shoulder, his right hand partially twisting the...
Side 103 - ... canoes to attempt going there, and it is supposed moreover, that even if they were to succeed in reaching so far, unless it happened to be the particular will of the gods, they would be sure to miss it. They give, however, an account of a Tonga canoe, which...