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The diversions of a prime ministerBook 1894 • Thomson, Basil
Tongans • Oceania > Polynesia
In 1890, the Wesleyan missionary, Shirley Waldmar Baker, who had served as premier of Tonga for the previous ten years, was ordered off the island by the British High Commissioner for the Western Pacific. His intolerance, petty tyranny, and general i...Savage Islandbook chapter 1902 • Thomson, Basil Home
Tongans • Oceania > Polynesia
This source is a somewhat informal account of the author's role in negotiating the treaty to make Tonga a British protectorate in 1900. As a former minister in the Tongan government, Thomson was returned to try to induce the new king to sign the trea...