Click here for You Tube version
of Queen Salote's visit to Ha'apai 1957
Click here for You Tube version
of Queen Salote's visit to Ha'apai 1957
Click here for The Day I Died - the story of the Boat Tragedy at Malinoa in 1977
Click here for A Tale of Tonga 1923 to 1931 by Gweneth H. Moore Edited Version Original Scan
Click here for the Royal visit of Queen Elizabeth to Tonga in 1954 A Newsreel of the Queen Elizabeth's visit to Tonga Archives of NZ - Queen Elizabeth's visit to Tonga
Sources of Tongan History
A collection of
documents extracts and contemporary opinions
in Tongan political history 1616 - 1900
Compiled and arranged by H. G. Cummins
This site provides a PDF version of the above work retyped from a photocopy.
The original was prepared for students of Tupou High School in 1972.
Few copies remain available for students or the interested public.
This site attempts to make this document available in a readable format.
The original work may not have been fully proof read so that there may be errors in the transcript.
Below is a list of the sections in the book that link to the relevant parts of the book.
The original scanned versions are available, also.
Cover, Contents, Document List, A note to Students, Acknowledgements.
Section 1 Political structures as seen by the early European visitors (Part A scanned) (Part B Scanned)
Section 2 Political instability and civil war at the beginning of the 19th century (Section 2 Scanned)
Section 3 The Missionaries and the Ascendancy of King George Tupou 1 (Part A & B Scanned) (Part C Scanned)
(4 Part A &B Scanned) (4 Part C & D) (4 Part D Const'n 1 & 11)
Section 5 Tongan Colonization of Fiji (Parts A - D Scanned) (Parts D - E Scanned)
Section 6 The Baker Regime (Parts A - C Scanned) (Parts C - E Scanned) (Parts E - G Scanned)
Section 7 European Powers and Tonga's Independence 7 (Parts A - C Scanned) (Parts C -E Scanned) (Parts E to Bibliography)
Bibliography Bibliography (Scanned)
Elizabeth Wood sent me these pages as a box of unbound photo copies. I have talked with Geoff Cummins and he is happy to have them made available on a web site. However, he would have liked to have it retyped onto a computer file so that he could edit it. The original was typed in the early 1970's onto Gestetner sheets and duplicated in that form, before micro computers were available. I have added a few other documents that I have come across that I have found of interest. These are noted. The original numbering of documents has been retained.
Leigh Harkness
Original Post 27 July 2011
Last Update 20 January 2024