[79] Captain James Cook, Voyages, iii. 204, v. 421 sq. However, in a footnote to the latter passage Captain Cook gives the correct explanation of the custom on the authority of Captain King: "It is common for the inferior people to cut off a joint of their little finger, on account of the sickness of the chiefs to whom they belong."
[80] Labillardière, Relation du Voyage à la recherche de la Pérouse (Paris, 1800), ii. 151.
[81] W. Mariner, Tonga Islands, ii. 79, 268.
[82] W. Mariner, Tonga Islands, ii. 208 sq.
[83] W. Mariner, op. cit. i. 366.
[84] W. Mariner, Tonga Islands, i. 438 sq.; compare id. ii. 214.
[85] W. Mariner, op. cit. i. 367 sq.
[86] Captain James Wilson, Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean, pp. 238-240.
[87] Captain James Wilson, op. cit. p. 240.
[88] Captain James Wilson, Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean, p. 257.