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MARTIN, Captain Henry Byam. The Polynesian Journal of... In command of H.M.S. Grampus--50 guns at Hawaii and on station in Tahiti and the Society Island August 1846 to August 1847.
Salem: Peabody Museum of Salem, (1981). First edition. Cloth, 192pp. With illustrations. Fine in d/w.
Martin was sent to Tahiti for a full year, "the fatal year in which the French subjugated the Tahitians by bloody force, made the island a "protectorate" of France but allowed the glamorous Queen Pomare to be the titular ruler until they took it over completely in 1880."