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Ellis, William Wade, d 1785 :Canoes of the Friendly Isles [Between May and July 1777]

Grassset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques, 1757-1818 :Femme des Iles des Amis. J Grasset St Sauveur inv. direx. J Laroque sculpt. [1788]

Grassset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques, 1757-1818 :Roi des Iles des Amis. J Grasset St Sauveur inv. direx. J Laroque sculpt. [1788]

Watkins, Kennett, 1847-1933 :Polynesian canoes. Graphic and Weekly news [Tonga. ca 1900]

Tongan girl

Speer, William Henry, d. 1867 :Babbington's idea of the Sth Sea Islands, Canterbury, N. Z. Dec. 1862. Come to my arms my dark Tongaian bride. From the filly, April 1863.

Copies of letters to his father

Ellis, William Wade, d 1785 :Friendly Isles? [Between May and July 1777]

Hodges, William 1744-1797 :Vaartuigen van de Vrienden-Eilanden. [Leyden, Honkoop, 1803?]

A group of Tongan men and women

Tongan children, playing at the water's edge, with a canoe

Hodges, William, 1744-1797 :Boats of the Friendly Isles / drawn from nature by W Hodges. Engraved by W Watts. No. XLII. Published Feb[ruary] 1st, 1777, by Wm Strahan, in New Street Shoe Lane, and Thos Cadell in the Strand, London.