In November 1806, the damaged Port-au-Prince arrived at what
Captain Cook had called the Friendly Islands. William Charles
Mariner (1791-1853) was among the few crew members spared by the
native inhabitants. He lived there for four years. Published in
1818, this two-volume second edition offers an important early
insight into Tongan customs and language. As editor John Martin
(1789-1869) explains, the structure of a nation's language is vital
to the consideration of its history. So successful was the first
edition of 1817 - expanded upon here to include 'generally
corroborative, and in a few instances somewhat corrective'
information from another erstwhile inhabitant - that within months
of its publication a French translation appeared; German and
American editions soon followed. Volume 2 covers diverse aspects of
Tongan society, from its music to notions of the soul, and includes
a detailed grammar of the language and 2,000 words of vocabulary.
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