ACCOUNT OF THE NATIVES OF THE TONGA ISLANDS, IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN. WITH AN ORIGINAL GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY OF THEIR LANGUAGE. COMPILED AND ARRANGED FROM THE EXTENSIVE COMMUNICATIONS MR WILLIAM MARINER, SEVERAL YEARS RESIDENT IN THOSE ISLANDS. BY JOHN MARTIN, M. D. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. THIRD EDITION, CONSIDERABLY IMPROVED. EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR CONSTABLE AND CO. AND HURST, CHANCE AND CO. LONDON. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR JOSEPH BANKS, BART. G. C. B. PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, THE FOLLOWING ACCOUNT OF THE NATIVES OF THE TONGA ISLANDS, IN WHICH IT IS ATTEMPTED PARTICULARLY TO SET FORTH THEIR MANNERS, CUSTOMS, RELIGION, AND LANGUAGE, FROM THE ORAL DESCRIPTIONS OF AN 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. |