Narrative of a tour through Hawaii, or, Owhyhee: with observations on the natural of the Sandwich Islands. And remarks on the manners, customs, traditions, history, and language of the inhabitants / By William Ellis.

  • Ellis, William, 1794-1872.
Date:
1827
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Narrative of a tour through Hawaii, or, Owhyhee: with observations on the natural of the Sandwich Islands. And remarks on the manners, customs, traditions, history, and language of the inhabitants / By William Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION. In presenting to the public a Second Edition of the following Narrative, the Author is happy in having an opportunity gratefully to acknowledge the kindness of those numerous friends who honoured him with their sub- scriptions for the first Edition,-—the favourable notice taken of the volume in a number of highly respectable literary, scientific, and religious periodical publications,—and the encouraging approbation it has received from the public at large. In preparing the present Edition, he has availed himself of the friendly suggestions of the Editors of the Literary Gazette and the Eclectic Review; has altered in many parts the phraseology of the narrative, and has introduced in the first Chapter a brief account of the other Islands of the group. The present Volume, containing forty additional pages of Letterpress, and three extra Plates, together with a Map of the Sandwich Islands, induces him to hope it will be found to merit a degree of patronage equal to that which the first Edition has received.