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Description Shows Tongan canoes, with sails and cabins, and two Tongan men paddling a smaller canoe in the foreground; derived from "Boats of the Friendly Isles" a record of Cook's visit to Tonga, 1773-4, during his second circumnavigation of the world.
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Source Alexander Turnbull Library, URL [1], Reference No.B-054-047
Author Hodges, William, 1744-1797. 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.
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