Primitive Manners and Customs

by James Anson Farrer

1. The kings and queens.

2. Chiefs of large dependent islands or districts.

3. Chiefs of towns, and priests.

4. Warriors of low birth; chiefs of carpenters and of turtle-fishers.

5. The people.

6. The slaves taken in war.

With which may be compared the Tongan social scale:—

1. The Tooitonga and Veachi, chiefs of divine descent.

2. The king, or How.