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OF

THE NATIVES

OF THE

TONGA ISLANDS,

IN THE

SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN.

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
" inhabitants of the banks of the Missouri or the Maranon."

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Preface to Humboldt's Personal Narrative.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.

BOSTON:

CHARLES EWER, No. 51, CORNHILL,

1820.

Elisha Bellamy, Printer.

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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, AND RELIGION,

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.

TIRKYKA

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