Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean

Nigel Statham graduated BA in General Linguistics and Indonesian Languages (Australian National University), BTh (Hons), PhD (Melbourne) and studied field linguistics with the Summer Institute of Linguistics. Statham was for 40 years a translator and translation consultant in Pacific Island languages, and is fluent in Tongan. He was the general editor of the first Tongan Monolingual Dictionary (19,000 entries). His translations into Tongan include the explorers’ accounts of their visits to Tonga from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, the present work (‘Mariner’s Tonga’) and George Vason’s narrative of four years in Tonga. He also undertook the digitisation and editing of the diary of Rev. John Thomas, the pioneer missionary to Tonga, and a previously unpublished history of Tonga by Rev. E. E. Collocott, a later missionary. Ian C. Campbell graduated from the Universities of New England (BA (Hons)) and Adelaide (PhD). He was formerly Professor of History & Politics at the multinational University of the South Pacific in Fiji, and is the author of Worlds Apart: A History of the Pacific Islands, Island Kingdom: Tonga Ancient and Modern, and Tonga’s Path to Democracy, among other works, as well as numerous journal articles, book chapters and encyclopaedia entries on Tongan and other Pacific Islands topics.

• List of Maps and IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgementsA Note on Tongan Language and Orthography.Selected Aspects of Tongan CultureWho Was Who in An Account of the Natives of the Tonga IslandsGenealogical chartsHistorical IntroductionA Note on Tongan Historical Sources AN ACCOUNT OF THE NATIVES OF THE TONGA ISLANDS IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC OCEANDedication to Sir Joseph BanksMartin’s PrefaceMartin’s IntroductionChapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6Chapter 7Chapter 8Chapter 9Chapter 10Chapter 11Chapter 12Chapter 13Chapter 14Chapter 15Chapter 16Chapter 17Chapter 18Chapter 19Chapter 20Chapter 21Chapter 22Chapter 23 Surgical Skill of the Tonga IslandersAppendix : A Grammar and VocabularyEditor's Introduction to the Grammar and VocabularyA Grammar of the Tonga LanguageA Vocabulary, Tonga and EnglishBibliographyIndex