p. 7 | The Tonga Islands by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 11, 1891

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 17, No. 19.

The Tonga Islands.

By Editor

From the Christian Cynosure. (April 2, 1891.)

The history of many of the interesting island groups of the Pacific are comparatively unknown to ordinary readers except through the writings of missionaries. When international complications arise, as a year ago at Samoa, or, more lately, at Tonga, so little is known of the locality or the people that it is like showing pictures to the blind. This little volume gives something of the history of the Tongas, the Hervey group, and the Marquesas Islands, before they were visited by the missionaries, and indeed were hardly known to the first navigators of those seas. The habits of the people, their government, the vegetable wonders on shore, and the great wonders of the sea about them, are graphically told in a manner that cannot fail to entertain and instruct young readers.

From the Independent. (April 2, 1891.)

This is the second in a series of "Jottings from the Pacific." The author has produced a series of picturesque, descriptive articles written from the missionary point of view and tending to excite interest in these Pacific islands and people, to show how promising the field is for evangelical work, what has been done, and what may be done.

From the Christian at Work. (April 2, 1891.)

We have here a graphic description of the Pacific island groups, with the manners and customs of the different peoples, products of the islands, curiosities, etc., all which materially differ in each group. Interesting descriptions are also given of pearl fishing in the South Pacific, the vegetable wonders found there, with many other things which will equally charm and instruct the reader.

From the Ill. Christian Weekly. (April 11, 1891.)

It gives an excellent description of the islands, and of the manners and customs of the people. It also tells of the introduction of Christianity to the islands; but its contents are mainly geographical and ethnological. It is quite interesting, and is well illustrated.

From the Christian Oracle. (March 19, 1891.)

This book gives more general information regarding these island inhabitants than we have found in any other work. It is worth reading carefully by both old and young.