A reworking by the author of a portion of William Mariner's An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands, published in 1817, which changes the narrative from 3rd to 1st person, and uses modernized grammar, punctuation and spelling of ...

"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.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This two-volume second edition, published in 1818, offers an important early insight into the customs and language of the Tongan people.