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M MARINER IN THE COSTUME OF THE TONGA ISLANDS.

EDINBURGH;

PRINTED FOR CONSTABLE & C?

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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
OF

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.

LE

BLIOT

TO

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

SIR JOSEPH BANKS, BART. G. C. B.

PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY,
&c. &c. &c.

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.

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