ACCOUNT

OF THE

TONGA ISLAND S.

T. DAVISON, LOMBARD-STREET, WHITEFRIARS, LONDON.

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.

"The savages of America inspire less interest. ... since celebrated navigators
"have made known to us the inhabitants of the islands of the South Sea.... The
"state of half-civilization in which those islanders are found gives a peculiar
"charm to the description of their manners. . . . Such pictures, no doubt, have
"more attraction than those which pourtray the solemn gravity of the inhabitant
"of the banks of the Missouri or the Maranon."

Preface to Humboldt's Personal Narrative.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

SECOND EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.

1818.