Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean, Vol. 1 of 2: With an Original Grammar and Vocabulary of Their Language
As I presume it would be unnecessary to offer any apologies for presenting to the public the following account of a people, of whose government, religion, customs, and language, so little has hitherto been published I shall proceed at once to give a simple statement of the circumstances which first gave rise to it, and the authority under which it has been conducted.
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