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082 0 4 _1https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ddc/E49gxRHQ6vmJJpFMdyR8HCDBCP
049 _aTNUM
100 1 _aMariner, William,
_d1791-1853.
_1https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJh4vypW7tKvYmMbKx7vHC
_9157,
_eauthor
245 1 0 _aTonga Islands :
_bWilliam Mariner's account /
_cJohn Martin.
250 _a5th ed. (abridged)
264 1 _aNuku'alofa, Tonga :
_bVava'u Press,
_c[(c)1991.]
300 _a399 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c21 cm
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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_2rdacarrier
546 _aIncludes text in Tongan.
500 _a"An account 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.
520 _a"William Mariner's story is a classic true adventure of the South Seas. The boy Mariner was a clerk aboard the English private ship of war, the Port au Prince that ventured into the South Pacific nearly two centuries ago. He survived the massacre of the crew at Tonga's Ha'apai Islands in 1806 and became the adopted son of the warrior king Finau 'Ulukalala II, who gave Mariner a new name 'Toki 'Ukamea' or Iron Axe. Mariner spent four years in Tonga before his escape to England. His remarkable story as told to Dr. Martin gives a detailed account of an important time in Tongan history. The power of the divine representative of the gods, the Tu'i Tonga was declining, and the Pacific Island Kingdom was in the turmoil of a civil war to which Finau 'Ulukalala was about to introduce the terror of his newly-acquired canons--Back cover
650 0 _aEthnology
_zTonga.
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700 1 _aMartin, John,
_d1789-1869.
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