An 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, Bind 1author, 1817 - 412 sider |
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Side xxxiv
... the sentiments of the king ; for although the latter does not speak English , he often seems to understand what is spoken in that language , and fre- · quently gives his nod of assent or dissent accordingly xxxiv INTRODUCTION .
... the sentiments of the king ; for although the latter does not speak English , he often seems to understand what is spoken in that language , and fre- · quently gives his nod of assent or dissent accordingly xxxiv INTRODUCTION .
Side xxxv
... accordingly : it is indeed a question whe- ther he does not understand English bet- ter than he pretends , but pleads ignorance from motives of policy . Mr. Mariner had afterwards ample confirmation of the king's sentiments in regard to ...
... accordingly : it is indeed a question whe- ther he does not understand English bet- ter than he pretends , but pleads ignorance from motives of policy . Mr. Mariner had afterwards ample confirmation of the king's sentiments in regard to ...
Side xliii
... accordingly thought it best to confine our subject . It is hoped , there- fore , that all deficiencies in regard to bo- tany , zoology , and mineralogy , will be thought amply compensated by abun- dance of information in respect of the ...
... accordingly thought it best to confine our subject . It is hoped , there- fore , that all deficiencies in regard to bo- tany , zoology , and mineralogy , will be thought amply compensated by abun- dance of information in respect of the ...
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... accordingly , with the view of doubling his good fortune . This vessel was also very successful . On his return home a second time he fell in with the Port au Prince , and went on board of her , as just related , with the same views of ...
... accordingly , with the view of doubling his good fortune . This vessel was also very successful . On his return home a second time he fell in with the Port au Prince , and went on board of her , as just related , with the same views of ...
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... accordingly shewn to them as fair specimens of the quality of the goods on board : on which they promised to bring the next day 4000 dollars to trade with . In the mean while a letter was sent to the governor requesting leave to ...
... accordingly shewn to them as fair specimens of the quality of the goods on board : on which they promised to bring the next day 4000 dollars to trade with . In the mean while a letter was sent to the governor requesting leave to ...
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Side 255 - I was getting on board, quitted it, and ran up the beach to cast the sternfast off, notwithstanding the master and others called to him to return, while they were hauling me out of the water. I was no sooner in the boat than the attack began by about...
Side 308 - ... off the colour of our skins. Mark how the uncultivated spectators are profuse of their applause ! — But now the dance is over: let us remain here to-night, and feast and be cheerful, and to-morrow we will depart for the Maria.
Side 126 - ... that had been seen both by the writer and reader, and which should be mutually understood by them ; but Mr Mariner immediately informed him, that he could write down any thing that he had never seen.
Side 438 - ... as the cause of diseases, and in omens, prevailed universally. Mariner tells a story of a woman of rank who was greatly attached to King Finow, and who for the space of six months after his death scarcely ever slept elsewhere than on his grave, which she kept carefully decorated with flowers :— One day she went, with the deepest affliction, to the house of Mo-oonga Toobo...
Side 50 - ... a constant blinking with one of his eyes, and a horrible convulsive motion on one side of his mouth. On another part of the deck there lay twenty-two bodies perfectly naked, and arranged side by side in even order. They were so dreadfully bruised and battered about the head, that only two or three of them could be recognized.
Side 107 - All that he says is supposed to be the declaration of the god, and he accordingly speaks in the first person as if he were the god. All this is done generally without any apparent inward emotion or outward agitation; but on some occasions his countenance becomes fierce, and...
Side 273 - ... was he delighted when he heard the confession from her own lips, that she had long regarded him with a favourable eye, but a sense of duty had caused her to smother the growing fondness, till the late sad misfortune of her family, and the circumstances attending her escape, had revived all her latent affections, to bestow them wholly upon a man to whom they were so justly due.
Side 262 - ... of the king, he turned this material into money, he would scarcely have made as much as he had given for it. Mr. Mariner was then going on to...
Side 127 - Tarky, blind in his left eye,' which was done, and read to the increased astonishment of every body. Mr Mariner then told him, that, in several parts of the world, messages were sent to great distances through the same medium, and, being folded and fastened up, the bearer could know nothing of the contents ; and that the histories of whole nations were thus handed down to posterity, without spoiling by being kept (as he chose to express himself).
Side 102 - Tinovv arrived upon the place, and saw several canoes which hail been hauled up in the garrison, shattered to pieces by the shot, and discovered a number of legs and arms lying around, and about three hundred and fifty bodies stretched upon the ground, he expressed his wonder and astonishment at the dreadful effect of the guns. He thanked his men for their bravery, and Mr. Mariner and his companions in particular, for the great assistance rendered by them.