Volume 1

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 : by John Martin.

  • Martin, John.
Date:
1818
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Credit: 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 : by John Martin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    somewhat corrective of Mr. Mariner's statements. For three or four years (until December last) Jeremiah resided with his father, an old inhabitant of the town of Aylesbury, a man well known, and much respected; and in the employ of many farmers in the county as a hay-binder. Some time after the publication of the first edition of the present work, a copy was sent to Jeremiah, with a request, that he would particularly remark and make a memorandum of what- ever he conceived not to be correctly stated. In the month of November last, Mr. Higgins, the father, happening to be in town upon some business, called to in- form me, that his son had been exceed- ingly pleased with the perusal of the work, particularly as it served to corroborate many things which he had previously re- lated to his friends and neighbours, and to which he had reason to think they did not always give the credit that was due; inso- much that he began to be heartily tired of answering their numerous inquiries. Among those to whom he had given the